Top Level Namespace

Defined Under Namespace

Modules: Comparable, Enumerable, Errno, GC, Kernel, Marshal, ObjectSpace, Process, Signal Classes: ARGF, ArgumentError, Array, BasicObject, Bignum, Binding, Class, Complex, Continuation, Data, Dir, EOFError, Encoding, EncodingError, Enumerator, Exception, FalseClass, Fiber, FiberError, File, FileTest, Fixnum, Float, FloatDomainError, Hash, IO, IOError, IndexError, Integer, Interrupt, KeyError, LoadError, LocalJumpError, MatchData, Math, Method, Module, Mutex, NameError, NilClass, NoMemoryError, NoMethodError, NotImplementedError, Numeric, Object, Proc, Random, Range, RangeError, Rational, Regexp, RegexpError, Ripper, RubyVM, RuntimeError, ScriptError, SecurityError, SignalException, StandardError, StopIteration, String, Struct, Symbol, SyntaxError, SystemCallError, SystemExit, SystemStackError, Thread, ThreadError, ThreadGroup, Time, TracePoint, TrueClass, TypeError, UnboundMethod, UncaughtThrowError, ZeroDivisionError, fatal

Constant Summary collapse

TOPLEVEL_BINDING = The Binding of the top level scope

rb_binding_new()

STDIN = Holds the original stdin

rb_stdin

STDOUT = Holds the original stdout

rb_stdout

STDERR = Holds the original stderr

rb_stderr

ARGV = ARGV contains the command line arguments used to run ruby with the first value containing the name of the executable. A library like OptionParser can be used to process command-line arguments.

rb_argv

ENV = ENV is a Hash-like accessor for environment variables. See ENV (the class) for more details.

envtbl

SCRIPT_LINES__ = When a Hash is assigned to SCRIPT_LINES__ the contents of files loaded after the assignment will be added as an Array of lines with the file name as the key.

Qnil

NIL = An alias of nil

Qnil

TRUE = An alias of true

Qtrue

FALSE = An alias of false

Qfalse

RUBY_VERSION = The running version of ruby

MKSTR(version)

RUBY_RELEASE_DATE = The date this ruby was released

MKSTR(release_date)

RUBY_PLATFORM = The platform for this ruby

MKSTR(platform)

RUBY_PATCHLEVEL = The patchlevel for this ruby. If this is a development build of ruby the patchlevel will be -1

INT2FIX(RUBY_PATCHLEVEL)

RUBY_REVISION = The SVN revision for this ruby.

INT2FIX(RUBY_REVISION)

RUBY_DESCRIPTION = The full ruby version string, like ruby -v prints’

MKSTR(description)

RUBY_COPYRIGHT = The copyright string for ruby

MKSTR(copyright)

RUBY_ENGINE = The engine or interpreter this ruby uses.

ruby_engine_name = MKSTR(engine)