The or Operator in Ruby

Hassan Ejaz Feb 15, 2024

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We will introduce how to use or operator in Ruby.

the `or` Operator (`||`) in Ruby

There are many situations where we need to implement certain tasks based on two conditions. If these situations are true, we use logical operators if we want a certain task to run automatically.

Operators are used to performing different tasks based on conditions. We can use the or operator (||) for this purpose.

The or operator (||) works so that we pass two conditions. The task will be performed if any of the conditions return true.

We use the following sign || to perform or logical operator in Ruby. Let’s go through an example where we will use this operator to perform a certain task.

Example Code:

# Ruby
Company = 'Mars'
Field = 'Tech'
if Company == 'Mars' || Field == 'Technology'
  puts 'Welcome to Mars Technology!'
else
  puts 'Wrong Company!'
end

Output:

or operator in ruby example using if-else statement

In the above output, only one condition was true. It still takes it as true because the or operator converts the whole situation to true if only one of the variables is returning true.

Let’s have another example in which we will try to use the or keyword instead of the || operator and try to get the result.

Example Code:

# Ruby
Company = 'Mars'
Field = 'Tech'
if Company == 'Mars' or Field == 'Technology'
  puts 'Welcome to Mars Technology!'
else
  puts 'Wrong Company!'
end

Output:

or keyword in ruby example using if-else statement

In the above example, it also returned the same result. It proves that we can use either the or keyword or || operator to get the same logic in Ruby.

the or Operator (||) in Ruby

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