I discovered Ruby a few years ago, and from my first line of Ruby, I thought that it was a fantastic language to write code in. I found the syntax, toolchain and overall feel of writing in Ruby was a pleasure. It felt to me that the language got out my way of writing the code and just get on with it. The tools all worked together so that I could easily develop and test my code, manage dependencies and move my code from development to production quickly.
Having mainly worked in PHP where object orientation was an addition, to working in a language where object orientation was at the heart, allowed me to progress my object orientated programming skills dramatically.

Ruby was the programming language that got out my way and allowed me to just build what I wanted! Just a brilliant language and a pleasure to use.