From: "J. D." <jd@...>
Date: 2004-12-03T12:42:41+09:00
Subject: Re: [OFF] How to introduce Ruby to more people.

bin liu wrote:
> Ruby in our country is strangeness,many people even have not hear about it.
> Not like PERL or Python,they are very popular.
> I LIKE/LOVE it ,and wish more and more people will know it,learn it and use it .
> But i'm not sure how to introduce it to others even  our country .
> I'm eager for your advices.
> 

Show them example ruby code that uses blocks, iterators and exception 
handling to open & process a file using very few lines of code--and in a 
way that gracefully handles errors and guarantees the file is closed.

Or show them this page and ask them how much code it would take them to 
do something similar in their favorite scripting language (see the Model 
Code and Example Usage):

   http://www.rubyonrails.org/show/AccessControlListExample

And finally, here's 37 reaons someone else loves ruby :)

   http://hypermetrics.com/ruby37.html

Tell them the ruby community is very friendly. (one of the 2 other 
languages you mentioned are notoriously unfriendly in their IRC channel)