What makes Ruby so special?
- simple syntax
- 100% object oriented language
- blocks
- decent meta-programming support (take a look at our macros)
- automatic getter/setter methods. See the attr macro.
- DuckTyping
- Easy refactoring
- Executable pseudo-code
Thats nice, but why use it?
This is an easy question to answer. Ruby makes programming simple. Compare Rails to your average java application framework for example. We manage to accomplish many of the same features in a fraction of the code. Well designed meta-programming allows us to abstract redundant code behind well defined macros.
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