[NMLUG] Ruby

[dwilde1 at gmail.com (Don Wilde)]

I have found so many good things in Ruby that I'm sold. Haven't tried
GUIing, but if it has bindings for all of the usual suspects,  then
it's more the GUI kit's features and faults than Ruby's.

I just did a raw Ruby version of a huge parser that was 900 times
faster (36 seconds vs 8+ hours) than Perl plus Parse::RecDescent.

Up until now, I've been using Perl+Embperl to do web better than PHP,
but I'm going to try Rails.

I definitely agree that learning new languages *adds* to your
competency. I'm not saying that switching to la langue du jour every
few anos is a good thing, but Ruby just has a lot to recommend it.

Has anybody got experience with Mac Tiger/Aqua and Ruby? I may be
consolidating everything at the house with one iMAC G5 soon.