Ruby - The gems of programming language

I've heard about Ruby for quite sometime. Ruby is a reflective, object-oriented programming language. It combines syntax inspired by Perl with Smalltalk-like object-oriented features, and also shares some features with Python, Lisp, Dylan and CLU. Yeah like C wasn't enough.

The language was created by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto way back in 1993. Matz stresses that systems design needs to emphasize human, rather than computer, needs.

"They are focusing on machines. But in fact we need to focus on humans, on how humans care about doing programming or operating the application of the machines. We are the masters. They are the slaves." - Matz

One important part about Ruby is that it is distributed under an open-source license. It is a cross platform. So if you have15 minutes to spare try this web based hands on tutorial to get some ideas.