Ruby, the language, is almost as flexible and dynamic as Smalltalk. It's just that it didn't come with an integrated graphical environment like Smalltalk. For

Ruby, the language, is almost as flexible and dynamic as Smalltalk. It's just that it didn't come with an integrated graphical environment like Smalltalk. For a glimpse of "what is possible", take a look at TkInspect (1), a set of gems that I'm working on that provide some of the goodies of that GUI, like an interactive, graphical console, a live inspector, a class browser or turtle graphics. At the moment it's not more than a toy, but it does definitely show what can be done. (1) https://github.com/josepegea/tk_inspect https://github.com/josepegea/tk_inspect