The Ideals of Ruby’s Creator [source: http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/about/] Ruby is a language of careful balance. Its creator, Yukihiro “matz” Matsumoto, blended parts of his favorite languages (Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, and Lisp) to form a new language that balanced functional programming with imperative programming. He has often said that he is “trying to make Ruby natural, not simple,” in a way that mirrors life. Building on this, he adds: Ruby is simple in appearance, but is very complex inside, just like our human body1. -------------------------------------- Ruby programming language IDE - Netbeans · RubyForge · RadRails · RubyMine · ActiveState_Komodo Implementations - Ruby MRI · YARV · JRuby · IronRuby · Rubinius · XRuby · MacRuby · RubyJS · HotRuby Applications - RubyGems · Rake · Interactive Ruby Shell · Capistrano · SketchUp Ruby Libraries / Frameworks - Adhearsion · Camping · eRuby (RHTML) · Merb · Nitro · RubyCocoa · Ruby on Rails · Sinatra · Ramaze Server Soft...