Right Angle Bracket
The > (right angle bracket) symbol is used (by itself) in Ruby for a greater than comparison of two objects.
Not quite what you're looking for? The > symbol shows up as part of other Ruby operators and syntax like hash rockets ({"a" => "b"}), the Shift Operator (>>), the Spaceship operator (<=>), the Lambda Proc Literal (-> { ... }), and rescue assignment (rescue Ex => e).
Greater Than Comparison
We can compare any two objects of the same type as long as they are Comparable ↗.
> 10 > 9
=> true
> 9 > 10
=> false
> 'xyz' > 'abc'
=> true
> 'A' > 'z'
=> false
> 'a' > 'Z'
=> true
Numeric types, strings, dates, and times are all common examples of elements that get compared this way.