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Introduction to Objects and Classes in Ruby

Explore the fundamentals of object-oriented programming in Ruby by understanding classes and objects. This lesson helps you grasp how to define classes, create objects, and invoke methods, laying the foundation for further OOP concepts.

Introduction

Ruby is an object-oriented programming language. Object-oriented programming is centered around the idea of classes and objects. Let’s look at an example to understand what we mean by classes and objects.

Example

In our example, Car is a class, a user-defined type. It has the following two functions (plus many more):

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