Ruby Buckton

Ruby Buckton is a fictional character on the Australian soap opera Home and Away, portrayed by actress Rebecca Breeds since 2008.

Arrival in Summer Bay
She first appeared in June 2008 with her then boyfriend Pat, after having dropped out of boarding school. Their relationship irritated her father and sister, but ended soon after her arrival. She moved in with her sister Charlie at Leah Patterson's place. Her father has developed Alzheimer's, which is a great ordeal for Ruby to cope with. Having already lost her mother, it's horrible for her to watch her father go through this. She often keeps her feelings bottled up inside, and feels pressured into being strong and hiding her feelings by people around her, especially her sister.

Miles Copeland
For a short period of time, Ruby had a crush on her english teacher, Miles Copeland. This new interest greatly annoys Annie, who says that Ruby could never get together with a teacher. Ruby disagrees, explaining that, at her old school, a girl had an affair with her teacher, and after the girl left the school, the two got married. Ruby later takes the blame for vandalizing headmaster Martin Bartlett's motorcycle, as the punishment was a detention with Miles. Annie later looks though the door and, not knowing Ruby has already gone, sees someone kissing Miles, and belives it to be Ruby. It turns out to be Kirsty Phillips. Miles and Kirsty have been keeping their relationship quiet as Bartlett does not like staff relationships. Annie later reveals that she saw Ruby kissing Miles. This results in Miles telling the headmaster of his relationship with Kirsty. Ruby then loses interest in him.

Dealing with her father's Alzheimer
Ruby started talking to somebody on skype, called Skye who understood her situation, Jai and Annie then found out that it was Matthew Lyons pretending to be Skye. Ruby got her revenge on Matthew by making him go skinnydipping and nicking his clothes. Matthew got revenge back on for this by displaying her diary over the school, and comments on the crush Ruby had of Miles Copland.

A new love interest
Ruby has started to take a liking to Xavier Austin and has already kissed him, much to Annie's annoyance. Trying to support Xavier, Ruby is herself hurt when he says that he wants her to leave him alone. Xavier then realises that he has feelings in return for Ruby. They become closer and start kissing on the couch at Rachel and Tony's place after a drinking a bottle of the deceased Jack's champagne that was very important to Tony as it was going to be used to christen Jack and Tony's boat when it was finished. They were caught kissing on the couch with the empty bottle of champagne and Ruby was told by Charlie to stop seeing Xavier. They later couldn't resist again and decided to see each other in private.

Xavier's (ex)-girlfriend is back in Xavier's life
Later when everything was going good between them Xavier's (ex)-girlfriend Freya came to the Bay with the idea that they were still together. Then Xavier chose bad girl Freya over Ruby and she was devastated about it. She now is trying to avoid ever seeing Xavier again and never see him especially with Freya. Now she has patched up everything with Xavier and accepeted his apology and they are now going to go out together.