Ruby

See also: ruby

English

Etymology

The female name derives from ruby in the 19th century. The programming language was named after the gemstone.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uːbi
• Homophone: ruby

Proper noun

Ruby

1. A female given name.
   • 1990, “Dear Ruby^{[sic – meaning Ruby, My Dear]}”, in Sally Swisher (lyrics), Thelonious Monk (music), Carmen Sings Monk, performed by Carmen McRae:

     Ruby, my dear / Hold back that tear / I know he's gone / Your love has flown

   • 1992, Karen Kijewski, Kat's Cradle, page 76:

     And those are her two daughters, Opal and Ruby. Her husband, Joshua, named them. He said they were to be the jewels of his old age. She would never have thought of names like that. There wasn't an ounce of sentiment in her body.

2. (rare) A surname.
3. (rare) A male given name.
4. (computer languages) A dynamic, reflective, general-purpose object-oriented programming language developed in the 1990s.
   • 2011 October 17, Matthew Baxter-Reynolds, “Java's second coming? Over my cold, dead RAM-cached database”, in The Guardian‎^[1], archived from the original on 27 June 2022:

     The final thrust of Bob's argument is that if you strip away all disk I/O (and he cites the move to SSD persistent storage), we'll shift away from interpreted languages such as Ruby and PHP and back to Java.

   • 2017, Peter Cooper, Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional, Apress, →ISBN, page 100:

     Ruby began life in Japan as the creation of Yukihiro Matsumoto, known more commonly as Matz. Unlike that of most language developers, Matz's motivation for Ruby was fun and a principle of “least surprise,” in order to improve overall developer productivity.

5. A city in Alaska.
6. A ghost town in Arizona.
7. A town in South Carolina.
8. A town in Wisconsin.
9. A settlement on the island of Saint Croix in the United States Virgin Islands.
10. A locality in South Gippsland Shire, south eastern Victoria, Australia.

Derived terms

• Rubygate
• Rubyist

Translations

female given name

• Esperanto: Rubi
• Hindi: रूबी (rūbī)
• Japanese: ルビー (ja) (Rubī)
• Korean: 루비 (ko) (Rubi)
• Māori: Rupi
• Marathi: रूबी f (rūbī)
• Persian: روبی (fa) (rubi)
• Polish: Ruby (pl) f
• Russian: Руби (ru) f (Rubi)
• Urdu: روبی (rūbī)

programming language

• Marathi: रूबी f (rūbī)
• Persian: روبی (fa) (rubi)
• Polish: Ruby (pl) n

Noun

Ruby

1. (Cockney rhyming slang) A curry; ellipsis of Ruby Murray.

   We're going down the Indian for a Ruby; wanna join us?

   • 2002, John Sullivan, “Strangers on the Shore”, in Only Fools and Horses:

     No matter if you're Asian, Arab or Eskimo, everyone loves a ruby.

Further reading

• Ruby (programming language) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• -bury, Bury, bury

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from English Ruby.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /ˈɾubi/ [ˈɾuː.bɪ]
    • Rhymes: -ubi
  • IPA^(key): /ɾuˈbi/ [ɾʊˈbɪ]
    • Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification: Ru‧by

Proper noun

Ruby or Rubý (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜓᜊᜒ)

1. a female given name from English