Glad to see Ruby by a Rubyist here. In Rails one could do things like: forecast = WeatherForecastService.for(location: 'Toronto').forecast(5.days).to_xml

Glad to see Ruby by a Rubyist here. In Rails one could do things like: forecast = WeatherForecastService.for(location: 'Toronto').forecast(5.days).to_xml The Smalltalk in Ruby makes it hard to argue that Smalltalk does this better.