note to self: ruby on rails

I did a lot of scripting earlier in my career but veered away from it when I submerged into the depths of Java/J2EE. Recently however, I've jumped back into scripting languages such as Python and Perl due to their expressiveness and native support for piping and manipulating output from different programs.

One scripting language I haven't learned yet is Ruby. Ruby has received a lot of "press" lately, especially with the Web development framework known as Ruby on Rails. This article popped up in a slashdot posting; it might be a good starting point after life returns to pseudo-normalcy (after the Habitat blitz build, after our move to Orange City, and after the twins are born).