I didn’t really work in Ruby during those times, but I do today. I like it, I find it a very “plain” language to work in. I mean plain in the beneficial sense, Ruby makes it easy to write boring code. It has too many bells and whistles, such as all the OOP doodads, but I try to avoid those and just write functions.

I don’t really find it magical, though if I spent much time working in Rails I probably would. But, there is Ruby without Rails. I recommend it, in fact.