declare a string in Ruby

name = "John Doe"

This code creates a string object named ‘name’, and sets it’s value to “John Doe”. A string is a sequence of characters, such as letters, numbers, and special characters, enclosed in quotes. In Ruby, the equals sign (=) is used to assign values to variables, so in this case we’re giving the variable ‘name’ a string value of “John Doe”. To store a string in Ruby, you just need to assign a value between quotes to a variable. You can use either single or double quotes, for example “John Doe” or ‘John Doe’. Ruby will then treat the string as an object and store it in memory.