[johnwatson11218]

For what its worth, I was doing stuff in Ruby at work but I switched to Groovy after a while. Things like Oracle db drivers, using "gem install" behind a ntlm network proxy were some roadblocks that I ran into with Ruby in a locked down enterprise environment. If you are going to be writing code and running your own servers then Ruby is easier to work with. I still think there is a cultural clash with Ruby in larger/more traditional IT shops.

[silversmith]

As for oracle side of things, you might want oc check out OraceEnhanced adapter (blog.rayapps.com). It is developed by a very smart guy (oracle developer of the year 2009), and we use it in several production apps - works great.