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