Of gems and trains
ditto: Ruby on Rails - Faster and Faster:
Now, tell me that Ruby doesn't have a real productivity advantage over Java or C#. As the developers of Ruby on Rails have claimed, you can have a functional web site in less code than a typical J2EE Struts configuration file.
And this is from a Java developer.
As part of my continuing effort to avoid real work by playing with every language I can find, I've been fooling with Ruby (and Rails) lately. It's really a nice language. Very clean, simple, nice OO model. Also, it's true, you can get a lot done in little code, especially with .each iterators and code blocks.