I can see how this is easy to do as many people new to rails often associate the framework to the language itself. Is it correct? No. Is it understandable? Yes. But by perpetuating this idea it only serves to harm the community as a whole.

I would say that before you write articles on a topic like this you should do a bit more research first.

1. “One of the goals of Ruby is to allow the simple and fast creation of web applications.”, No! This is the goal of rails the framework. I think you might be getting “ruby” vs “ruby on rails” confused with the type of language that php was/is produced to be.

2. “released in July 2004″, No. This is just nitpicking really, but it was not released in 2004 this was when it was developed. I wasn’t released until the following year.

3. “Rails also has a testing framework built in”, debatable. Rails is not the one that provides the testing framework, this is actually provided by ruby itself. Rails just has hooks to allow the whole process of writing and running tests a lot easier, and incorporate it into the process flow of building a web application.

I agree with the previous poster, Leonardo, in that you are misrepresenting ruby and rails in this article.

Ehm, and that was supposed to explain its greatness? :)

I am not familiar with Ruby and even with some programming experience I have trouble making sense what Ruby is from this post. And you had probably scared the hell out of newbies. :)

btw as for me best for-newbie language is AutoIt. It is simple enough to code without much experience and extensive enough to be useful for automating many boring tasks.

Ruby’s goal is to easily create web applications?!?!?!?!

Honestly, there are tons of benefits to using ruby. But you’ve just listed none.