Ever since Ruby on Rails became popular, the Ruby programming language has become increasingly popular in the world of web development. If you have prior experience with Python or similar languages, it won't take long until you grasp the basics of Ruby. When you look at Ruby from a PHP background, there might be some surprises up ahead - but for me, they were mostly pleasant surprises. This tutorial is meant to introduce some basic Ruby concepts. After going through this, you will be able to look at simple Ruby code without headaches, and have a better understanding of some of the R