Interpreter of object-oriented scripting language Ruby 1.8 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 libdbm-ruby1.8 libgdbm-ruby1.8 libopenssl-ruby1.8 libreadline-ruby1.8