ruby hello world

To write a "Hello, World!" program in Ruby, follow these steps:

  1. Open a text editor or an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) to write your Ruby code.

  2. Begin by typing the following line of code:

puts "Hello, World!"

  1. Here's an explanation of each part of the code:

  2. puts is a Ruby method used to output text to the console.

  3. "Hello, World!" is a string literal enclosed in double quotes. It represents the text that will be printed to the console. In this case, it is the phrase "Hello, World!".

  4. Save the file with a .rb extension. For example, you could save it as hello_world.rb.

  5. Open a terminal or command prompt and navigate to the directory where you saved the Ruby file.

  6. Execute the Ruby file by typing ruby hello_world.rb in the terminal or command prompt.

  7. The program will execute, and you will see the output "Hello, World!" printed to the console.

That's it! You have successfully written and executed a "Hello, World!" program in Ruby.