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Mar 292013

Global and Local variable in Ruby

Answer:

In Ruby, global variable has a name beginning with $, e.g.

$foo = 'bar'
puts $foo

In contrast, local variable has a name start with a lower case letter or an underscore character, e.g.

foo = 'bar'
puts foo