In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, James Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can you give us some more details, I'm interested too ;) http://www.ruby-lang.org/ and http://www.rubycentral.com/ are very good resources. http://www.rubygarden.com/ruby is Dave Thomas' Wiki about Ruby. irc.openprojects.net has #ruby-lang where a few Ruby programmers hang out (Dave Thomas is normally on there, for example, and, er, me. :-) I've just created a "Ruby London" mailing list if anyone's interested in that: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or http://browser.org/mailmain/listinfo/rubylondon > What's the performance like, library availability, http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/raa.html # Ruby Application Archive The performance, from the limited benchmarks I've done, seems to be between Perl and Python, and pretty close to Perl. > can you recommend any of the books on it etc etc? "Programming Ruby", by Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt, ISBN 0-201-71089-7 -- rob partington % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://lynx.browser.org/