---
title: Try Ruby!
teaser: Ruby is an awesome programming language. Try it today, it's fun!
tags: web,ruby
author: Jon Yurek
published_on: 2005-11-06
---

If you've heard about [Ruby] but you don't want to go to the bother of
installing it just to find out you don't like it, then you can use [this
interactive tutorial][try-ruby] from one of the strangest cats (in a good way)
I've seen pimping any programming language, [Why the Lucky Stiff][why].

[Ruby]: http://www.ruby-lang.org
[try-ruby]: http://tryruby.org
[why]: http://whytheluckystiff.net

It just runs in your browser (though there are reports that it doesn't work in
Opera), patiently waiting for input to send to what's probably something akin to
[irb]. With the magic of XMLHttpRequest and the [moo.fx] effect lib that \_why
was pushing a few weeks ago, you can run through a few tutorials on how ruby
works. It's quite a lovely experience.

[irb]: http://archive.is/LZUEn
[moo.fx]: http://moofx.mad4milk.net/

A friend of mine who's a security researcher has been trying to break it for the
past half hour, unsuccessfully.