Try Ruby is very cool. It’s a Ruby prompt in your browser, with step-by-step instructions for which Ruby commands to try and what they do. Very effective way of learning.

The Ruby people really have an amazing knack for marketing their language effectively. I’ve never seen any other group pay so much attention to and provide so many tools for people to adopt a product. These guys are out-doing highly paid professional marketers in a big way. I’m very impressed. I wonder if there’s a correlation between people who gravitate to Ruby and people who care about how ideas are presented. The man behind the big resurgence of Ruby, David Heinemeier Hansson, recently made a presentation entitled “Pursuing beauty with Ruby on Rails“. These guys seem passionate about presenting ideas with beauty and understandability.