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title: "Working With Nodes in Ruby"
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## Aspose.Words - Working With Nodes

To get Node Type using Aspose.Words Java for Ruby, simply invoke get_nodes() method. method of Nodes module.

**Ruby Code**

```ruby

## The path to the documents directory.

data_dir = File.dirname(File.dirname(File.dirname(__FILE__))) + '/data/quickstart/'
\# Create a new document.
doc = Rjb::import('com.aspose.words.Document').new()
\# Creates and adds a paragraph node to the document.
para = Rjb::import("com.aspose.words.Paragraph").new(doc)
\# Typed access to the last section of the document.
section = doc.getLastSection()
section.getBody().appendChild(para)
\# Next print the node type of one of the nodes in the document.
node_type = doc.getFirstSection().getBody().getNodeType()
node = Rjb::import("com.aspose.words.Node")
puts "NodeType: " + node.nodeTypeToString(node_type)
```

## Download Running Code

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- [GitHub](https://github.com/aspose-words/Aspose.Words-for-Java/blob/master/Plugins/Aspose_Words_Java_for_Ruby/lib/asposewordsjavaforruby/nodes.rb)