I heart Ruby

I've been working my way through the Pickaxe book, mostly over a nice coffee and panini at Caffé Nero, and I'm really enjoying what I'm finding out about Ruby. It takes the best ideas from more academic languages such as Lisp and Smalltalk and puts them in a practical setting, with a well designed expressive syntax. It gives me a great feeling of liberation to know I that all these wonderful new toys (full OO, continuations, closures, introspection, metaprogramming) are within easy reach. I can see myself devoting a lot of time to Ruby. I'm sure it's a worthwhile investment.