Ruby and Rails are fine engineering. A language that truly learned from all that came before it, and a web framework built on clear abstractions artfully expressed by the language. It feels good because compared to its contemporaries it's designed well.
Ruby will forever be home for me. It's enjoyable and readable for humans
Exacly. And I love its written in C. You need to extend Ruby w/ your favorite Graph Library? You just slap .c glue code and vioala it works like a charm!