Editing Ternary conditional operator (section)

===Ruby===
Example of using this operator in [[Ruby (programming language)|Ruby]]:

<syntaxhighlight lang="ruby">
1 == 2 ? "true value" : "false value"
</syntaxhighlight>

Returns "false value".

A traditional if-else construct in [[Ruby (programming language)|Ruby]] is written:<ref name="pickaxe">Programming Ruby: [http://ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/html/tut_expressions.html#S4 Conditional Execution]</ref>

<syntaxhighlight lang="ruby">
if a > b
  result = x
else
  result = y
end
</syntaxhighlight>

This could also be written as:

<syntaxhighlight lang="ruby">
result = if a > b
  x
else
  y
end
</syntaxhighlight>

These can be rewritten as the following statement:

<syntaxhighlight lang="ruby">
result = a > b ? x : y
</syntaxhighlight>