Comments are lines of annotation within Ruby code that are ignored at runtime. A single line comment starts with # charcter and they extend from # to the end of the line as follows:
#!/usr/bin/ruby -w
# This is a single line comment.
puts "Hello, Ruby!";
Ruby Multiline Comments
You can comment multiple lines using =begin and =end syntax as follows:
#!/usr/bin/ruby -w
puts "Hello, Ruby!";
=begin
This is a multiline comment and con spwan as many lines as you
like. But =begin and =end should come in the first line only.
=end
Make sure trailing comments are far enough from the code that it is easily distinguished. If more than one trailing comment exists in a block, align them. For example:
@counter # keeps track times page has been hit
@siteCounter # keeps track of times all pages have been hit