Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming. it has many features to process text files and to do system management tasks (as in perl). it is simple, straight-forward, and extensible.

this package depends on the respective development packages for every ruby version currently supported by debian. this will usually be a single version (the default one), but during transitions multiple versions might be supported.

to programatically list all the supported versions, install the `gem2deb` package and run `dh_ruby --print-supported`. to determine which is the default version, just dereference the /usr/bin/ruby symbolic link.

if you are not building ruby packages for debian, you probably do not need this package.