Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming. It has many features to process text files and to do system management tasks (as in perl). It is simple, straight-forward, and extensible. . This package provides version 1.8 series of Ruby. . On Debian, Ruby 1.8 is provided as separate packages. You can get full Ruby 1.8 distribution by installing following packages. . ruby1.8 ruby1.8-dev ri1.8 ruby1.8-elisp ruby1.8-examples libtcltk-ruby1.8