Good job, tenderlove, that's a nice performance boost. Personally, I really dislike Ruby's syntax, though I haven't spent a huge amount of time with it (becaus

Good job, tenderlove, that's a nice performance boost. Personally, I really dislike Ruby's syntax, though I haven't spent a huge amount of time with it (because I dislike the syntax). The use of bracers and other lexical markers makes code a lot clearer and faster to decipher, imo, than a bunch of def and ends. (I know that () are optional in Ruby, can you also use {} if you desire? Again, not 100% familiar with the language features. Just know some standard rails implementations of the language). Maybe it just hasn't 'clicked' with me yet, but bleh. The dynamic typing doesn't help its case in my book either. That's my personal preference, and why I try to avoid using ruby, even for the web backed by rails despite it's popularity. Then again, if you need to get a web project up and running quickly rails is never a bad choice (in my experience).