Using Variables in Ruby--Assign Information to a Variable

By Michael Morin, About.com Guide

Assigning information to a variable in Ruby is as easy as it was in the pseudocode . By using the assignment operator (the = character), you can store any information in a variable. In this example, a message to be printed to the screen is stored in the variable var1 and a number is stored in var2. The information in var1 and var2 could be used later by any Ruby statement.

 irb(main):001:0> var1 = "Ruby is fun and easy!"
 => "Ruby is fun and easy!"
 irb(main):002:0> var2 = 42
 => 42
 

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