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ruby

Availability and IPv6 support

Name

IPv6 support

Supported operating systems

[http://www.ruby-lang.org/ ruby]

included

UNIX, Linux, [http://www.freshports.org/search.php?query=ruby *BSD], MS-Windows

Description

Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming. It has many features to process text files and to do system management tasks (as in Perl). It is simple, straight-forward, and extensible. Features of Ruby are shown below. + Simple Syntax + *Normal* Object-Oriented features(ex. class, method calls) + *Advanced* Object-Oriented features(ex. Mix-in, Singleton-method) + Operator Overloading + Exception Handling + Iterators and Closures + Garbage Collection + Dynamic Loading of Object files(on some architecture) + Highly Portable(works on many UNIX machines, and on DOS, Windows, Mac, BeOS etc.)

Comments

Usage information

Categories

CategoryApps, CategoryAppsdevelopment

Source of information

FreeBSD port collection