Ruby, as I have mentioned before is a really nice scripting language. I made the "really nice" judgement long before I had actually written a single line of Ruby code. I just liked the way it looked. Well, it seems that my initial reading impressions are lining up nicely with my hands on experience. And, honestly, I have Rails to thank for that.
Rails is an web application framework for Ruby that is pretty darn phenomonal. You can actually create a very simple application to track todo items by typing 1 line of code. 1 LINE! Are you kidding me? Of course, that base app is pretty ugly and not very user-friendly. But it is fully usable. On top of that it only took about 100 total lines of code (including comments) to pop out a good looking todo app that is also highly usable. It was probably the easiest bit of coding I have ever done. It is pretty darn amazing.
It is going to be hard to focus on my Coldfusion work tomorrow when I have Ruby calling out to me to dig in and play around some more. The cool thing about these scripting languages that CF can't match is that I can actually build non web-based apps with them. However, I'm going to hold off on trying to do stuff like that until I get somewhere with Lootly!