Part 1: Ruby for the aspiring hacker. (Introduction)

Introduction:

Ruby is a programming language. It is vastly known by hackers. This particular programming language was influenced by Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, and Lisp.

Why you should learn Ruby?

Ruby is a very easy language to learn compared to other languages!

Ruby is a powerful, flexible programming language you can use in web/Internet development. You can create games, etc with it, too. Let's compare C++ to Ruby.

#include <iostream>

int main()
{

std::cout << "Hello World" << std::endl;
return 0;
}

Now look at Ruby:

puts "Hello World!"

2.) Lot's of companies are looking for people who know Ruby. Of course, you'll need to know PHP, C++, HTML, etc, but Ruby is a good step to learn.

Let's start actually learning Ruby. We will of course start off easily! Very simple.

I am using Notepad++, now. Let's create a file. I, myself, will name it: Test.rb, remember to add the: ".rb"

Ok. So... Let's do a simple: "Hello World!"!

puts "What is up?"
print "Nullbyte"

Now, remember to always add a 'print' statement, if not, it'll just give a nil.

That is all for today. Some simple Hello World commands, and introduction to Ruby. I will add another tutorial by tomorrow.

6 Responses

Erm... some of Ruby is compiled into bytecode, while some of it is interpreted. Ruby is not black and white, but more grey and gray.

I don't know why you're comparing it to C++, whereas you should be comparing it to a different scripting language or the other half of Ruby.

Ruby is object oriented, dynamic and robustable. If you compare ruby with java. You can feel the difference with the execution of code

# to run a ruby code just type :
ruby filename.rb
# it works !

But for java you need to run
Javac filename
/ then
Java classname

I think you got the difference

Ruby is a good language to know, Metasploit uses it for modules.

Also I will have to admit, I don't know Ruby

Msf is not only using modules written in ruby. Its built on ruby

This gave guide gave me inspiration for a guide I'm working on where I compare HTML with Assembly

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