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Features

• object-oriented
• four levels of variable scope: global, class, instance, and local
• exception handling
• iterators and closures (based on passing blocks of code)
• native, Perl-like regular expressions at the language level
• operator overloading
• automatic garbage collecting
• highly portable
• cooperative multi-threading on all platforms using green threads
• DLL/shared library dynamic loading on most platforms
• introspection, reflection and meta-programming
• large standard library
• supports dependency injection
• continuations and generators (examples in RubyGarden: continuations and generators)

Ruby currently lacks full support for Unicode, though it has partial support for UTF-8.