What is Ruby? Nedir?

Ruby was developed in 1995 by Yukihiro 'Matz' Matsumoto in Japan. Inspired by languages like Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, and Lisp, Ruby was designed with the principle of 'programmer happiness.' It is a fully object-oriented language where everything is an object, known for its elegant and readable syntax. Ruby gained worldwide popularity in 2004 when David Heinemeier Hansson introduced the Ruby on Rails web framework. Rails' principles of 'Convention over Configuration' and 'Don't Repeat Yourself' (DRY) deeply influenced the web development world. Ruby is extremely powerful in metaprogramming. Open classes, method_missing, blocks, and Proc/Lambda constructs that facilitate DSL (Domain Specific Language) creation are distinctive features. The RSpec test framework and RubyGems package manager offer a rich ecosystem. GitHub, Shopify, Airbnb, Basecamp, and Twitch were built with Ruby on Rails. Ruby is especially popular for startups and rapid prototyping, and is also used in DevOps with tools like Chef and Vagrant.

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