Merge pull request #288 from MarcosX/adding_variables_scope_info

Adding explanation about variables scope and naming convention in Ruby

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/ruby.html.markdown b/ruby.html.markdown
index 3a233d98..80682682 100644
--- a/ruby.html.markdown
+++ b/ruby.html.markdown
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ contributors:
   - ["Luke Holder", "http://twitter.com/lukeholder"]
   - ["Tristan Hume", "http://thume.ca/"]
   - ["Nick LaMuro", "https://github.com/NickLaMuro"]
+  - ["Marcos Brizeno", "http://www.about.me/marcosbrizeno"]
 ---
 
 ```ruby
@@ -339,6 +340,23 @@ dwight.name #=> "Dwight K. Schrute"
 # Call the class method
 Human.say("Hi") #=> "Hi"
 
+# Variable's scopes are defined by the way we name them.
+# Variables that start with $ have global scope
+$var = "I'm a global var"
+defined? $var #=> "global-variable"
+
+# Variables that start with @ have instance scope
+@var = "I'm an instance var"
+defined? @var #=> "instance-variable"
+
+# Variables that start with @@ have class scope
+@@var = "I'm a class var"
+defined? @@var #=> "class variable"
+
+# Variables that start with a capital letter are constants
+Var = "I'm a constant"
+defined? Var #=> "constant"
+
 # Class also is object in ruby. So class can have instance variables.
 # Class variable is shared among the class and all of its descendants.