Ruby - Class self pointer

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Introduction

When you run a program, Ruby creates a main object, and add any code that appears inside your main code unit.

You can verify this by creating a new source file and adding the following code: 

puts self 
puts self.class

When you run this program, you'll see the following output: 

main 
Object