Unlike many other languages, 0 isn’t qualified as false in an expression.

I made a simple list describing the 3 main things to consider when trying to understand how objects work in ruby. Feel free to add to this list as much as you want. Your comments are welcome and very appreciated.

Symbols in Ruby are used everywhere and for good reasons. There are two main reasons of using them instead of strings (however they are absolutely not a replacement to strings, more on that later).