Ruby (programming language)

Quality:

Ruby - general-purpose programming language. This programming language is the 15^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 14^th most popular programming language in English Wikipedia. Article "Ruby (programming language)" in English Wikipedia has 70.6 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 85 references and 18 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

This article has the best quality in Estonian Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 9232^nd most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 14^th most popular in programming languages in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5606^th most popular in AI.

The 15^th most popular in programming languages.

In July 2024 the article "Ruby (programming language)" was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Ruby (programming language)", its content was written by 835 registered users of English Wikipedia (9232^nd place) and edited by 3265 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (5606^th place).

Ruby is on the 14^th place in local ranking of programming languages in English Wikipedia and on the 15^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 1903 times in English Wikipedia and cited 11589 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #114 in December 2001
• Global: #94 in January 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #5406 in April 2015
• Global: #6558 in April 2015

There are 49 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from August 1, 2024 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Estonian (et) Ruby (programmeerimiskeel)		79.482
2	English (en) Ruby (programming language)		70.5628
3	Persian (fa) روبی (زبان برنامه‌نویسی)		59.7629
4	German (de) Ruby (Programmiersprache)		57.988
5	Chinese (zh) Ruby		55.7319
6	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Ruby		53.003
7	Greek (el) Ruby		51.13
8	Portuguese (pt) Ruby (linguagem de programação)		46.9124
9	Russian (ru) Ruby		46.2691
10	Polish (pl) Ruby (język programowania)		42.5488

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ruby (programming language)		10 351 209
2	Japanese (ja) Ruby		2 121 925
3	Russian (ru) Ruby		1 981 501
4	Spanish (es) Ruby		989 634
5	German (de) Ruby (Programmiersprache)		934 905
6	French (fr) Ruby		760 365
7	Chinese (zh) Ruby		588 187
8	Portuguese (pt) Ruby (linguagem de programação)		516 831
9	Polish (pl) Ruby (język programowania)		411 993
10	Korean (ko) 루비 (프로그래밍 언어)		290 556

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ruby (programming language)		20 443
2	Japanese (ja) Ruby		3 703
3	Russian (ru) Ruby		2 957
4	German (de) Ruby (Programmiersprache)		1 663
5	Chinese (zh) Ruby		1 332
6	Spanish (es) Ruby		1 310
7	French (fr) Ruby		1 248
8	Portuguese (pt) Ruby (linguagem de programação)		866
9	Dutch (nl) Ruby (programmeertaal)		654
10	Polish (pl) Ruby (język programowania)		446

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ruby (programming language)		835
2	German (de) Ruby (Programmiersprache)		277
3	French (fr) Ruby		221
4	Russian (ru) Ruby		212
5	Japanese (ja) Ruby		177
6	Italian (it) Ruby (linguaggio di programmazione)		117
7	Spanish (es) Ruby		112
8	Chinese (zh) Ruby		103
9	Polish (pl) Ruby (język programowania)		87
10	Dutch (nl) Ruby (programmeertaal)		76

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ruby (programming language)		3
2	German (de) Ruby (Programmiersprache)		1
3	French (fr) Ruby		1
4	Italian (it) Ruby (linguaggio di programmazione)		1
5	Korean (ko) 루비 (프로그래밍 언어)		1
6	Russian (ru) Ruby		1
7	Swedish (sv) Ruby		1
8	Arabic (ar) روبي (لغة برمجة)		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Ruby		0
10	Belarusian (be) Ruby		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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