From the TIOBE.com programming community index web page at http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm

“We are glad to announce that Ruby has become “Programming Language of the Year 2006“. Ruby has the highest popularity increase in a year of all programming languages (+2.15%).”

Ruby is…

A dynamic, open source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity. It has an elegant syntax that is natural to read and easy to write.

Ruby programming language links:

http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/

http://www.rubyonrails.org/

http://www.rubycentral.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_programming_language

http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/

http://rubyforge.org/