In the Ruby webdev community, RSpec and Devise are considered to be the most Ruby-ic gems around. The idea, much as with Lisp, is to transform the language into something that describes the problem at hand as naturally as possible. RSpec is considered to be a fine example of a language designed for writing software specifications, and it still happens to be valid Ruby.

One of the take-aways from this is that within the Python community, "Pythonic" means "keep close to the language as envisioned by GVR", and within the Ruby community, "Ruby-ic" means "the closer you can get it to English and still keep the code executing, the better."

I personally dislike RSpec, but that's a minority opinion. I dislike the general aim to make everything look as natural as possible, because that approach hides too much complexity, a lot of which leaks often in unpredictable ways. Nevertheless, when it comes to pumping out websites, Ruby is my language of choice, and my efficiency in Rails smokes my efficiency in everything else out of the water.