Ruby Block Comment

A comment hides a line part of a line or several lines from the ruby interpreter.

Ruby block comment.

Files ending c are parsed as c files. Yes there are magic comments multiline comments erb comments. How to use multi line comments in ruby. File names ending rb and rbw are assumed to be ruby source.

The block followed after begin is evaluated before any other statement in that file or string. Rdoc uses file extensions to determine how to process each file. Trivia like the quiver and skis sprites the ruby sprite. In block comments each line begins with the hash mark followed by a single.

I am programming in ruby and i hate putting on lines individually. The character doesn t necessarily have to occur at the beginning of the line. Any characters from the character to the end of the line are completely ignored by the ruby interpreter. Initializing ruby program this is main ruby program terminating ruby program ruby comments.

You can use block comments to explain more complicated code or code that you don t expect the reader to be familiar with. Aaa bbb ccc that s exactly how to comment out a block of code in ruby. Make sure trailing comments are far enough from the code and that they are easily. All other files are assumed to contain just markup style.

In ruby we do multiline comments with regular single line comments. But begin and end should come in the first line only. Is there a way to comment out a chunk of highlighted code. This is a comment line ruby comments start with outside of a string or character literal and all following text until the end of the line.

Usr bin ruby w puts hello ruby begin this is a multiline comment and con spwan as many lines as you like. It can occur anywhere. The ruby single line comment begins with the character and ends at the end of the line. These longer form comments apply to some or all of the code that follows and are also indented at the same level as the code.

Some people call these block comments. Or a comment may be on the same line after a statement or expression. You can use the hash character at the beginning of a line i am a comment.