Ruby is awesome for prototyping. It's just incredibly fast to work with, because the language makes an effort to provide as much help as possible and adding as

Ruby is awesome for prototyping. It's just incredibly fast to work with, because the language makes an effort to provide as much help as possible and adding as little obstacles as necessary. E.g. you can even add/change functions to/of Object, even during runtime, if you think it helps. Rails adds `blank?` like that, which is a helper for `nil? || empty?`.