Welcome to XCODX Online Compiler
Quick Start:
Ctrl+Enter Run code
Ctrl+S Save / Download
Ctrl+L Clear output
Select a language and start coding.
Ruby was designed by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto around a single principle — optimize for programmer happiness — and it shows in code that often reads like English. Rails made it famous, and GitHub, Shopify, and Basecamp still run enormous Ruby codebases today, while Ruby 3.x answered the old performance criticisms with the YJIT compiler delivering real production speedups at Shopify scale. Blocks, iterators, and expressive one-liners make it a scripting delight. On this page your script runs on a genuine Ruby interpreter with an interactive terminal: gets waits for whatever you type while the program is running, so command-line programs behave exactly as they would on your own machine.
print "What's your name? "
name = gets.chomp
print "Pick a number: "
n = gets.to_i
evens = (1..n).select(&:even?)
puts "Nice to meet you, #{name}!"
puts "Even numbers up to #{n}: #{evens.join(', ')}"
puts "Fun fact: #{name.reverse} is your name backwards."Warm up with code katas the Ruby community loves — string manipulation, enumerable chains, FizzBuzz variants — before a pairing interview at a Rails shop like Shopify or GitHub, or test the hash-and-array wrangling from a Rails service object as a standalone script. Bootcamps that start with Ruby assign console exercises that map perfectly onto this sandbox, and experienced developers use it to check what a chained each_slice, group_by, or gsub actually returns before committing it.
Yes — the interpreter runs against a live terminal, so gets pauses your script until you type a line (remember .chomp to strip the trailing newline). Programs with multiple prompts, or a loop reading until the user types "quit", run exactly as they would in a local shell.
It's the standard CRuby/MRI interpreter from the modern 3.x line, so current syntax — safe navigation, pattern matching with case/in, endless methods, keyword arguments — behaves the way the official docs describe. It's the same implementation Rails apps deploy on, not a browser-based approximation.
No — gem install and bundler need network access the sandbox doesn't grant, and Rails needs a full project structure. The standard library goes a long way regardless: json, set, date, digest, and the entire Enumerable toolkit are available, covering scripts, katas, and interview problems comfortably.
main.rbrubygetsputs "Hello from Ruby!"
puts "Welcome to XCODX Online Compiler!"
languages = ["Ruby", "Python", "JavaScript"]
puts "Languages: #{languages.join(', ')}"