Ruby is a relatively new scripting language.  From the FAQ[http://www.rubycentral.com/faq/rubyfaq.html]:

``Ruby is a simple and powerful object-oriented programming language, created by Yukihiro Matsumoto (who goes by the handle "matz" in this document and on the mailing lists). 

``Like Perl, Ruby is good at text processing. Like Smalltalk, everything in Ruby is an object, and Ruby has blocks, iterators, meta-classes and other good stuff. 

``You can use Ruby to write servers, experiment with prototypes, and for everyday programming tasks. As a fully-integrated object-oriented language, Ruby scales well.''

The home page for Ruby is http://www.ruby-lang.org.  You may also find http://www.rubycentral.com and http://www.ale.cx/mine/ good sources of Ruby information.

There is a Ruby/Tk[http://www.ale.cx/mine/raa/raa-history-Application_GUI.html] if you want to bring your Tk skills into a new world.

IMPORTANT: I'm '''not''' here to advocate another language in preference to Tcl/Tk (I somewhat prefer Tcl/Tk to Ruby, myself) -- only to bring up information that I think might be worthwhile.  Please let me know if this page is considered annoying, and I will ask the administrators to remove it.  Don't erase or change it just because you dislike Ruby or only want Tcl/Tk information here -- someone else might still want to read it.  Thank you.

/[Peter Lewerin] peter.lewerin@swipnet.se