I have noticed that that ruby community is much nicer than most on-line communities I've seen. Quelle: http://martinfowler.com/bliki/RubyPeople.html, MartinFowler

When Bil Kleb was asked, "What does NASA use Ruby for?" his first reply was, "For everything we can." Quelle: http://www.devsource.com/article2/0,1759,1778699,00.asp

In 1981, when I started working on Unix, I remember being blown away by the power of the command-line pipes-and-filters paradigm. You could get real work done with simplicity, clarity, and economy of notation that wasn’t available in anything else at the time. I’ve worked with lots of programming environments since then, but none of them gave me that feeling of being able to write a solution so well that working code just flew off of my fingers. Until now: Ruby on Rails achieves for web programming the same sort of conceptual leap that Unix made for file-handling. You’ve got to try it! Quelle: http://weblog.rubyonrails.com/archives/2005/03/19/bruce-perens-glowing-ode-to-rails/, BrucePerens über Rails

If you want to work at a cool little company or research lab, you'll do better to learn Ruby on Linux. http://paulgraham.com/college.html

Richard Monson-Haefel asks "Is there a place for AOP in .NET or is it too sophisticated for your developers." Don's take is "My development platform should allow me to write code w/ a couple of beers in me." He ragged a bit on Java developers and said their main problem is they think they're smarter than they are. He also said that if he could change on thing at MSFT, it would be that Ruby becomes the language of choice. Quelle: http://raibledesigns.com/page/rd/20050317#microsoft_day_1_afternoon, DonBox scheint nun auch ein Fan von Ruby zu sein

It’s an established scientific fact that Ruby programmers laugh five times more per day than Python programmers, and thirty times more than Java programmers. And unlike the mad half-a-laugh-per-week C++ crowd, it’s not all evil cackling laughs, either. Wonko the semi-successful magician (comment at http://redhanded.hobix.com/cult/utterlyIgnoredPythonTheRpg.html)

My favorite answer of the night was after Matz was asked if he preferred coding in C or Ruby; after a brief pause, he said the liked them both ? coding in Ruby is a joy, and coding in C is a puzzle. Mike Stok, http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/12/18/ruby_con.html?page=2

[...] using Ruby for XML transforms was much easier than using XSLT. MartinFowler, http://martinfowler.com/bliki/MovingAwayFromXslt.html