Hi,
I often saw discussions about "what is better" -- and not only
concerning Ruby. Most of this discussion were made (?correct word? or
is it "discussions were lead"? or..? Head.dictionary.use == empty 
by pointing to "the other" saying "the bad thing with XYZ is...".
I would be very interested in what other Rubyists do like most with
Ruby -- without any comparison with other languages.
What is "your most wanted feature of Ruby already implemented" ?
For the first I will start here with three things:
1) The Ruby mailing list is a friendly place on earth.
(Support matters!)
and
2) You does not need to know everything about Ruby to handle it.
This should be understood in two ways:
First interpretation:
Ruby is able to be complex enough and to handle complex algorithms
and to remain interesting. And it is simple enough to be
recognized as an interesting "object" to learn from the start on.
Second interpretation:
If you know a certain way "to speak to your Ruby" you can
interpolate your knowledge to and into other programming
situations and Ruby phrases and most of the time it works out of
the box or with only a little change.
and
3) Most of the time one knows what to ask / to search for if someting
needs to be clearified.
You dont need to learn a certain "ruby talk" to get
understood. For example: A string is a string is a string. Ruby
is not that special in its "talk about" that you dont need to
learn a special language to talk about the language you want to
talk about. That makes searching for informations -- for example
-- in the documentation much more easier and (important not only
for beginners!) successful -- and this in turn keeps one motivated.
Enough said
What do you think ?
PS: This is not intended to be the start of a flame war -- that's why
I dont said anything like "Ruby is better than XYZ, becaus of alpha
beta gamma..."
Kind regards,
Meino
by pointing to "the other" saying "the bad thing with XYZ is...".