About Ruby Programming Language

You wonder why Ruby is so popular? Fans of Ruby as a language called Ruby a beautiful and artistic. They also say it's practical and easy. What else?

Idealism Creator of Ruby

Yukihiro Matsumoto, the Creator of Ruby

Ruby is a well-balanced language. Creator of Ruby, Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, blended parts of his favorite languages ​​(Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, and Lisp) to form a new language that balanced functional programming with imperative programming.
He has often said that he is "trying to make Ruby natural, not simple," in a way similar to real life.

Building on this, he adds:

Ruby is simple in appearance, but is very complex inside, just like our human body. 

About Ruby Development

Since Ruby's first public release in 1995, many professional programmers from around the world come to develop Ruby serious. In 2006, Ruby received by many people. With an active community of Ruby users in many cities around the world and conferences and meetings related to Ruby.

 

Ruby-Talk, the main mailing list for discussion of Ruby (in English) has reached an average of 200 emails every day.

TIOBE index, which measures the development of programming languages​​, put Ruby on the 10th rank among programming languages ​​worldwide. Looking at these developments, they predict, "Opportunity Ruby entered the ranks of the top 10 is within half a year." Most of the development of the famous Ruby attributed software written in Ruby, particularly the web framework Ruby on Rails2.

Ruby is also totally free. Not only free, but also free to use, modify and distribute.

make it easy?

Source : http://www.ruby-lang.org/id/about/