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Ruby Comments

Ruby comments are non executable lines in a program. These lines are ignored by the interpreter hence they don’t execute while execution of a program. They are written by a programmer to explain their code so that others who look at the code will understand it in a better way.

Types of Ruby comments:

• Single line comment
• multi line comment

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Ruby Single Line Comment

The Ruby single line comment is used to comment only one line at a time. They are defined with # character.

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The Ruby multi line comment is used to comment multiple lines at a time. They are defined with =begin at the starting and =end at the end of the line.

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