Yes, this good guide for ruby programmers. Btw it is my bets languages i using it for a long time. And now ruby on rails web development As a matter of fact Ruby language was created much earlier than even PHP, but it was used for the most part in Japan. The land lied like this until Rails came in, owing to David Heinemeier Hansson. Combined Ruby language and Rails framework, or simply Ruby on Rails, have become a powerful and highly effective tool in developing web applications, used by programmers all around the globe. Moreover, Ruby has a great future as it's quite possible that in a few years other even better frameworks designed for it will appear.