Is Ruby a scripting language or an interpreted language?

Question

I just noticed that in the wikipedia page of Ruby, this language is defined as interpreted language.
I understood that probably there\'s something missing in my background.

Answer 1

Yes.

Detailed response:

A scripting language is typically used to control applications that are often not written in this language. For example, shell scripts etc. can call arbitrary console applications.

Ruby is a general purpose dynamic language that is frequently used for scripting.

You can make arbitrary system calls using backtick notation like below.

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There are also many excellent Ruby gems such as Watir and RAutomation for automating web and native GUIs.

For definition of scripting language, see here.