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Ruby program to calculate the area of Cube

Last Updated : December 15, 2025

Problem Solution

In this program, we will read the side of Cube from the user. Then we will calculate the area of the Cube and print the result.

Program/Source Code

The source code to calculate the area of Cube is given below. The given program is compiled and executed successfully.

# Ruby program to calculate the 
# area of Cube

side=0.0;
area=0.0;

print "Enter side: ";
side = gets.chomp.to_f;  

area = 6.0 * side * side;

print "Area of Cube is: ",area;

Output

Enter side: 2.56
Area of Cube is: 39.3216

Explanation

In the above program, we created two variables side and area, that are initialized with 0.0. Then we read the side of Cube from the user and calculated the area of Cube using the standard formula. After that, we printed the result.

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