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Top 84 Ruby Interview Questions

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Theoretical Questions

Q1:   

What are rubygems?

  
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Q2:   

Why Ruby is known as a language of flexibility?

  
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Q3:   

Which core object includes the "Kernel" module?

  
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Q4:   

What is an object?

  
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Q5:   

Is there an equivalent of “continue” in Ruby?

  
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Q6:   

What can you say about an identifier that begins with a capital letter?

  
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Q7:   

Is everything in Ruby an object?

  
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Q8:   

What is a class?

  
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Q9:   

What is the highest level in the object model?

  
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Q10:   

How might you specify a default value for a hash?

  
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Q11:   

Is Ruby a strongly typed or a weakly typed language?

  
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Q12:   

Explain redo statement in Ruby

  
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Q13:   

What is the difference between private and protected methods?

  
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Q14:   

Why might you use #each instead of for/in?

  
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Q15:   

What is a predicate in the context of Ruby method naming conventions?

  
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Q16:   

Explain each of the following operators and how and when they should be used

  
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Q17:   

What is the difference between a class variable and a class instance variable?

  
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Q18:   

What is a module? Can you tell me the difference between classes and modules?

  
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Q19:   

What is the difference between an Instance Variable and a Class Variable?

  
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Q20:   

What is duck typing and how does it pertain to Ruby?

  
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Q21:   

Why are symbols typically used as hash keys instead of strings?

  
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Q22:   

What does it mean to coerce an object? Why would you do it?

  
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Q23:   

Explain some differences between Ruby and Python

  
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Q24:   

What is the difference between nil and false in Ruby?

  
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Q25:   

Are instance methods public or private?

  
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Q26:   

What is the difference between #== and #===?

  
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Q27:   

Which of the expressions listed below will result in "false"?

  
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Q28:   

Are class variables inherited?

  
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Q29:   

Is Ruby a statically typed or a dynamically typed language?

  
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Q30:   

Can you call a private method outside a Ruby class using its object?

  
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Q31:   

What is a DSL and how does it pertain to Ruby?

  
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Q32:   

What are two uses of the splat operator?

  
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Q33:   

There are three ways to invoke a method in ruby. Can you give me at least two?

  
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Q34:   

Why might you use Hash#fetch over Hash#[] when querying values in a hash?

  
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Q35:   

What is the return value for ...

  
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Q36:   

Explain redo vs. retry usage

  
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Q37:   

What will val1 and val2 equal after the code below is executed? Explain your answer.

  
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Q38:   

What does a bang ! at the end of a method signify?

  
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Q39:   

What does self mean?

  
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Q40:   

What is the difference between #== and #equal??

  
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Q41:   

Can you tell me the three levels of method access control for classes and modules? What do they imply about the method?

  
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Q42:   

Why might you want to alias a method?

  
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Q43:   

What is the difference between Proc invocation and lambda invocation?

  
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Q44:   

What will be the value of ...

  
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Q45:   

Which operator must be defined in order to implement the Comparable module?

  
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Q46:   

Why might you want to avoid using string literals within loops?

  
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Q47:   

Explain this ruby idiom: a ||= b

  
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Q48:   

What is the main difference between procs and lambdas?

  
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Q49:   

What is a Proc?

  
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Q50:   

What is the difference between throw/catch and raise/rescue?

  
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Q51:   

When might you use the do/end syntax versus using the curly bracket syntax for a block?

  
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Q52:   

How does block invocation differ from method invocation?

  
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Q53:   

What is the difference between Module#remove_method and Module#undef_method?

  
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Q54:   

What is the difference between calling "super" and calling "super()"

  
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Q55:   

Describe a closure in Ruby

  
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Q56:   

How is the invocation of a private method different than the invocation of a public method from within its defining class?

  
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Q57:   

Why can you safely use a string as a hash key, even though a string is mutable?

  
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Q58:   

What is the difference between Kernel#require and Kernel#load?

  
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Q59:   

What is the difference between Array#map and Array#each?

  
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Q60:   

What is an iterator?

  
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Q61:   

What are some disadvantages of a case statement versus repeated elsif statements?

  
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Q62:   

What are two uses of ranges?

  
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Q63:   

What is the difference between #== and #eql??

  
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Q64:   

What will be the result of each of the following lines of code

  
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Q65:   

What happens if a block is passed two arguments but only accepts one argument?

  
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Q66:   

Why doesn't Ruby support method overloading?

  
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Q67:   

What happens to a constant which is not assigned?

  
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Q68:   

Is a method an object?

  
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Q69:   

What is an eigenclass?

  
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Q70:   

What is the difference between Object#dup and #clone?

  
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Q71:   

What is the difference between BasicObject#instance_eval and BasicObject#instance_exec?

  
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Q72:   

Is a block an object?

  
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Q73:   

When might you encounter a LocalJumpError?

  
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Q74:   

What is the primary difference in these two code snippets?

  
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Q75:   

How exactly does it work?

  
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Q76:   

What is the differnece between extend and include in ruby?

  
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Code Challenges

Q1:   

How do you remove nil values in array using ruby?

  
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Q2:   

What will be the values of ...

  
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Q3:   

Check if a value exists in an array in Ruby

  
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Q4:   

Write a function that sorts the keys in a hash by the length of the key as a string.

  
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Q5:   

What is the value of the variable "upcased" in the below piece of code?

  
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Q6:   

Explain the difference between

  
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Q7:   

Is the line of code below valid Ruby code? If so, what does it do?

  
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Q8:   

Write a single line of Ruby code that prints the Fibonacci sequence of any length as an array.

  
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