| Terms | Ruby | Python |
|---|
| Definition | Ruby is an open source web application programming language. | Python is a high level programming language. |
| Object Oriented | Fully object oriented programming language. | Not fully object oriented programming language. |
| Developer | Yukihiro Matsumoto in 1990s. | Guido Van Rossum in 1980s. |
| Developing Environment | EclipseIDE is supported. | multiple IDEs are supported. |
| Libraries | It has smaller library than Python. | Has larger range of libraries. |
| Mixins | Mixins are used. | Mixins can’t be used. |
| Web frameworks | Ruby on Rails | Django |
| Community | Mainly focused on web. | Focussed in academia and Linux. |
| Usage | Apple Github Twitter Groupon Shopify ThemeForest | Google Instagram Mozilla Firefox The Washington post Yahoo Shopzilla |
| Built-in classes | Built-in classes can be modified | Built-in classes can’t be modified |
| elseif | elsif | elif |
| Unset a variable | Once a variable is set you can’t unset it back . It will be present in the symbol table as long as it is in scope. | del statement help you to delete a set variable. |
| yield keyword | It will execute another function that has been passed as the final argument, then immediately resume. | It returns execution to the scope outside the function’s invocation. External code is responsible for resuming the function. |
| Anonymous functions | Support blocks, procs and lambdas. | Support only lambdas. |
| Functions | Doesn’t have functions. | It has functions. |
| Tuples | It doesn’t support tuples. | It support tuples. |
| switch/case statement | It support switch/case statement. | It doesn’t support switch/case statement. |
| lambda function | Its lambda functions are larger. | It support only single line lambda function. |
| Inheritance | Support single inheritance. | Support multiple inheritance. |
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