I should say, I've written a few hundred lines of Ruby, am a language geek, and perhaps most importantly, have somehow ended up reading a lot of blog posts by p

I should say, I've written a few hundred lines of Ruby, am a language geek, and perhaps most importantly, have somehow ended up reading a lot of blog posts by people who write Ruby. I can't speak to how it would come across to someone who didn't have that superficial level of familiarity.