The command line is another way to communicate with your computer. If you think of scenes in movies where a person is “hacking” a computer likely the scene features someone entering commands in a terminal prompt. The files and folders on your screen are just a pretty display of the information that is on your computer. The command line is a different way to instruct your computer to do actions you’d like it to do instead of clicking and dragging things about.

Let’s try it out…

And integrated with more ruby practice…