Ruby is actually incredibly beautiful. I used to think Python was beautifully concise and minimalist till I started playing with Ruby. I don't use Rails, thoug

Ruby is actually incredibly beautiful. I used to think Python was beautifully concise and minimalist till I started playing with Ruby. I don't use Rails, though. But I do write and use Ruby for hundreds of everyday data and text manipulation tasks. Its also great fun for sucking data from a database and slicing and dicing it into a dozen different formats really quickly. I love its natural language constructs. They're incredibly productive. Python is like that, too but I find myself drawn to Ruby. It is fun in itself and it does make drudge-programming fun again.