Today marks one year since i uploaded my first gem and became a rubyst. I'm glad i'm a rubyst and not something else. Some of the reasons why i chose ruby:

• Ruby is designed for programmer productivity and fun. It's syntax is elegant and easy to learn.

• Ruby standard library is full of useful modules and classes.

• Generating and reading ruby docs is simple thanks to rdoc and ri.

• Rubygems make it easy to create, publish and download ruby libraries.

• I tried various web development frameworks and found rails to be the most pleasant one to use. Rails convention over configuration helped me to accomplish more with less code.

• My birth stone is the ruby. The word "ruby" is only four letters long and relatively easy to type.