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

The term 'scripting language' is very broad, and it can include both interpreted and compiled languages. Ruby in particular, might compiled or interpreted depending on what particular implementation we're using - for instance, JRuby gets compiled to bytecode, whereas CRuby (Ruby's reference implementation) is interpreted