[garthdog]

I am terribly out of Ruby practice. Choosing Ruby as his language, presumably because it is the language he is best at, and then whiffing on the basics is probably what did him in. The brevity of phone interviews and the need to whittle down a massive pool of applicants to a manageable stream means that the interviewer is going to infer a lot from a little.

He should have chosen a language he is better at. If Ruby is indeed his top language, and he's rusty at that, then perhaps OP just isn't fit for a coding job at this point in time?

[AccordionGuy]

I wanted to use:

- A language with a REPL so that I could check my ideas in a terminal window. - A language that would reduce the amount of typing I'd have to do - A language I that I was half-decent at (at lease at one point)

And Ruby fit all those criteria.