[mikeryan]

I’m at least a bit amused that you have a whole comment about how nice rails is without mentioning ruby ;-)

[davidw]

To me it's just sort of a given that Ruby is pleasant to work with. Otherwise Rails wouldn't be. If Rails itself were unpleasant, though, merely being in Ruby wouldn't be enough to make up for that.

[mikeryan]

I actually meant it affectionately. I always enjoyed using Ruby and wish it had a larger footprint outside of Rails.

[stonecharioteer]

I believe this is why ruby decreased in popularity. Rails preceded its reputation. A similar thing almost happened with Django and Python. I've heard of a few people who call themselves django developers.