[brudgers]

For what it is worth, I think you will probably learn something from trying Ruby, even if you wind up sticking with Python. The community and language design are just very different from Python's: MINSWAN v BDFL, many ways versus Pythonic PEP's, everything is an object versus some things are objects, etc.

All this with the caveats that: I think both languages have advantages and disadvantages and I think knowing more languages is better than knowing fewer or one.

[mixmastamyk]

If you are going to learn something different, learn something really different, not another dynamic unix scripting language.

[brudgers]

There are languages I find more interesting than Ruby. Suggesting them however would have required deliberately misreading or ignoring the actual question. Ruby was on the table and in use. The alternative? A regression to Python. At least as much encouragement as advice.