Block commenting in Gedit?

Question

Is there a way to comment out a chunk of highlighted code?

I am programming in ruby, and I hate putting # on lines individually.

Answer 1

1.Install gedit plugins

 sudo apt-get install gedit-plugins

2.Go to Edit->Preference->Plugins-> and enable Code Comment

3.Ctl+m to comment block of codes

4.Ctl+Shift+m to uncomment block of codes

Answer 2

=begin

Code to be commented out

=end