By Rick Wayne. Short positive review, with code samples. Full text, in an email; to see it on magazine website one must register. [Software Development]

Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, discusses Ruby and O'Reilly guide 'Ruby in a Nutshell'. [O'Reilly Network]

Explains that the world can use another language for the simple reason that Ruby makes programming fun again, and that's what counts. Introduction via examining high-level Ruby traits, and distinguishing traits. [O'Reilly Network]

By Brian Marick. Testing through a GUI is hard, testing through a scripting interface is easier. Example uses Ruby to test Word through COM. [Software Testing and Quality Engineering Magazine]

Medium length positive review, with code samples, references. [The Perl Review]

Forum comments and discussion related to Ruby and O'Reilly guide 'Ruby in a Nutshell'; diverse opinions, many positive remarks. [Slashdot.org]

Three Ruby projects stand out (JRuby, Mongrel, Ruport) not so much for development, but for communicating well, something many projects do less well. Linux Journal.

Matz Roundtable Notes from Friday night at RubyConf 2005, as questions and answers. [Obie Fernandez Weblog]

Take the pure object orientation of Smalltalk, remove the quirky syntax and reliance on a workspace. Add the convenience and power of Perl, but without the special cases and magic conversions. Give it a clean syntax based partly on Eiffel, add a few c...

Forum comments and discussion related to July IBM developerWorks Ruby article, with the usual diversity of opinion, much of it positive. [Slashdot.org]