Using strings in Ruby

A string is a data type in Ruby and contains a set of characters, typically normal English text (or whatever natural language you're building your program for), that you would write. A key point for the syntax of strings is that they have to be enclosed in single or double quotes if you want to use them in a program. The program will throw an error if they are not wrapped inside quotation marks.

Let's walk through three scenarios.

Missing quotation marks

In the preceding code, I tried to simply declare a string without wrapping it in quotation marks. As you can see, this results in an error. This error is because Ruby thinks that the values are classes and methods.

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