Triple single quote vs triple double quote in Ruby

Question

Why might you use \'\'\' instead of \"\"\", as in Learn Ruby the Hard Way, Chapter 10 Study Drills?

Answer 1

I assume the author confused Ruby and Python, because a triple-quote will not work in Ruby the way author thought it would. It'll just work like three separate strings ('' '' '').

For multi-line strings one could use:

%q{
 your text
 goes here
}
 => "\n     your text\n     goes here\n    "

or %Q{} if you need string interpolation inside.