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Ruby Ruby Basics (Retired) How Ruby Works The Ruby Programming Language

Posted by nathanielcusano
nathanielcusano
9,808 Points

Why does ruby -v have to be lowercase? I tried Ruby -v and it doesn't work.

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SivaKumar Kataru
SivaKumar Kataru
2,386 Points
SivaKumar Kataru
SivaKumar Kataru
2,386 Points

Its a case Sensitive. When you type "ruby" in the shell/ Terminal the terminal will search for the "ruby" in the system path (/bin). If it founds "ruby" (which is treated as command by terminal) then the control we will be passed to ruby and invokes it. Since ruby is executable/ binary file. Else the terminal says "No Command Found".

Remember the name Ruby is Different from ruby. Though it sounds the same meaning. But computers are blind/dumb which needs the correct name.

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Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points
Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points

In programming, uppercase and lowercase letters are totally different.