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Ruby (programming language)
Ruby is a dynamic, object-oriented general-purpose programming language created by Japanese programmer Yukihiro (Matz) Matsumoto in 1993 and strongly associated with web development through Ruby on Rails.
Ruby (Supernatural)
Ruby (Supernatural) is a demon in the TV series Supernatural, played by Katie Cassidy (season 3) and Genevieve Cortese/Padalecki (season 4, 15.13), who manipulated Sam into killing Lilith to free Lucifer and was killed by Dean.
Ruby & Jodi: A Cult of Sin and Influence
Four-part 2025 Investigation Discovery docuseries, directed by Olivia Crist and streaming on HBO Max, examining Ruby Franke and Jodi Hildebrandt's child abuse case, ConneXions, and the December 2023 guilty pleas.
Ruby Allen
Ruby Allen, EastEnders soap opera character, daughter of crime boss Johnny Allen, played by Louisa Lytton (2005–2006, 2018–2021, 2024–2025); known for the Rape Crisis consent storyline, marriage to Martin Fowler, and Stacey Slater feud.
Ruby Barker
Ruby Barker (born 1996, Islington, London) is a British actress who played Marina Thompson in Bridgerton seasons 1-2 and won a British Urban Film Festival Best Actress award for How to Stop a Recurring Dream; distinct from Ruby Stokes and other namesakes.
Ruby Bentall
Ruby Bentall (born 1988, London) is an English actress, daughter of Janine Duvitski and Paul Bentall, known for Minnie in Lark Rise to Candleford, Verity in Poldark, Angelica in The Serpent Queen, and Globe and National Theatre stage work.
Ruby Bridges
Ruby Bridges (Ruby Nell Bridges Hall), American civil rights activist who at age six desegregated William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans on November 14, 1960, escorted by federal marshals, later founding the Ruby Bridges Foundation.
Ruby chocolate
Ruby chocolate is a pink, sour, berry-flavored fourth type of chocolate introduced by Barry Callebaut in Shanghai on September 5, 2017, made from underfermented or unfermented cocoa beans, first sold as Nestlé KitKat Ruby in Japan in 2018.
Ruby Cruz
Ruby Cruz (born 2000) is an American actress known for Jess Riley in Mare of Easttown, Kit Tanthalos in Disney+'s Willow, Hazel in Bottoms, and Ash in The Sex Lives of College Girls.
Ruby Dee
Ruby Dee (born Ruby Ann Wallace, 1922-2014), American actress, playwright, and civil rights activist; originated Ruth Younger in A Raisin in the Sun, won Emmy, Grammy, and SAG awards, Oscar-nominated for American Gangster, and partnered with Ossie Davis.
Ruby Falls
Ruby Falls is a 145-foot underground waterfall inside Lookout Mountain in Chattanooga, Tennessee, discovered in 1928 by Leo Lambert during elevator shaft drilling and opened as a show cave in 1930, named for his wife Ruby.
Ruby field
The Ruby field is a shallow-water offshore oil and gas field off the east coast of Trinidad, within the Greater Angostura Field, brought on stream in 2021.
Ruby Franke
Ruby Franke, Utah family vlogger behind the 8 Passengers YouTube channel (2.5 million subscribers), was convicted of aggravated child abuse with counselor Jodi Hildebrandt and sentenced in 2024 to up to 30 years in prison.
Ruby Gas Pipeline
The Ruby Pipeline is a 680-mile, 42-inch interstate natural gas pipeline from Opal, Wyoming, to Malin, Oregon, built by El Paso and placed in service in 2011.
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken is a 2023 DreamWorks Animation action-comedy, formerly titled Meet the Gillmans, directed by Kirk DeMicco with Faryn Pearl. A teenage kraken heir discovers her royal lineage; first titular female lead in a DreamWorks animated feature.
Ruby Hartley
Ruby Hartley (born 1998) is a British actress, a 2019 Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama graduate, best known as Stiorra in Netflix's The Last Kingdom seasons 4–5, with credits in Oh Rats and The Vicar's Wife.
Ruby Keeler
Ruby Keeler (Ethel Hilda Keeler, 1909–1993), Canadian-born American tap dancer and actress, star of Warner Bros. musicals 42nd Street, Gold Diggers of 1933, and Footlight Parade opposite Dick Powell, wife of Al Jolson, and 1971 No, No, Nanette comeback star.
Ruby L. Wilson
Ruby L. Wilson was an American nurse, educator, and health-policy advocate who was Duke Hospital's first clinical nurse specialist and dean of the Duke School of Nursing from 1971 to 1984.
Ruby Langford Ginibi
Ruby Langford Ginibi, born Ruby Maude Anderson (1934–2011), was an Australian Bundjalung author and activist whose 1988 autobiography Don't Take Your Love to Town became a seminal Indigenous memoir.
Ruby laser
The ruby laser is a pulsed solid-state laser that emits deep red light at 694.3 nm from chromium ions in a synthetic ruby crystal. It was the first laser, operated by Theodore Maiman in 1960.
Ruby Leung
Ruby Leung, born Lai-yung Leung, is an American climate scientist and Battelle Fellow at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory who leads the Department of Energy's E3SM climate model.
Ruby Lin (林心如)
Ruby Lin (林心如, born 1976, Taipei) is a Taiwanese actress, singer, and producer famous as Xia Ziwei in Princess Returning Pearl (1998); she founded Ruby Studio in 2009 and produced Golden Bell winners 16個夏天 and 有生之年.
Ruby Lu
Ruby Lu is a venture capitalist who founded Atypical Ventures in 2019, having earlier co-founded DCM China, and is best known for backing the short-video company Kuaishou.
Ruby McCollum
Ruby McCollum, also known as Ruby Jackson, was a wealthy Black Florida woman who shot white state senator-elect Dr. C. LeRoy Adams in Live Oak in 1952.
Ruby O. Fee
Ruby O. Fee (Ruby Moonstone Camilla Willow Fee, born 1996, San José, Costa Rica) is a German actress known for Allein gegen die Zeit, Tatort: Happy Birthday Sarah, Polar, Army of Thieves, and Netflix's Brick (2025), a multiple Jupiter Award winner.
Ruby on Rails
Ruby on Rails, also known as the Rails framework, is an open-source web-application framework written in Ruby and first released in 2004 after being extracted from Basecamp.
Ruby P. Hearn
Ruby P. Hearn is an American health philanthropy executive who was a vice president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, directing national child and adolescent health programs.
Ruby pistol
The Ruby pistol (Pistole Automatique Ruby) was a Spanish copy of the Browning Model 1903, chambered in .32 ACP and the most numerous French Army sidearm of World War I.
Ruby Princess
The Ruby Princess is a Crown-class cruise ship operated by Princess Cruises, built by Fincantieri in Italy and entering service in 2008 for up to 3,080 guests.
Ruby Ridge
Ruby Ridge: 11-day August 1992 armed standoff at the Weaver family cabin in Boundary County, Idaho, triggered by a firearms bench warrant; killed Deputy Marshal William Degan, Samuel Weaver, and Vicki Weaver; reshaped FBI crisis policy.