Ruby is an interpreted scripting language for quick and easy
object-oriented programming. It has many features for processing text
files and performing system management tasks (as in Perl). It is
simple, straight-forward, and extensible.

* Ruby features:

- Simple Syntax

- *Normal* Object-Oriented features (class, method calls, for
example)

- *Advanced* Object-Oriented features(Mix-in, Singleton-method, for
example)

- Operator Overloading

- Exception Handling

- Iterators and Closures

- Garbage Collection

- Dynamic Loading of Object Files (on some architectures)

- Highly Portable (works on many UNIX machines; DOS, Windows, Mac,
BeOS, and more)