Yukihiro Matsumoto, the creator of Ruby programming language, famously said: “I hope to see Ruby help every programmer in the world to be productive, and to enjoy programming, and to be happy.” Honestly, not many programming languages were built with developer’s happines in mind. And to be honest, Ruby is a joy to work with. It’s fairly easy to learn, easy to read, yet, very powerful. Also, with the appearance of Ruby on Rails, it became insanely productive. But first things first.

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