Hi all, Just thought I'd announce myself. I Just started tinkering with Ruby last week and I'm definately intrigued and I'm getting hopefull that it might be the tool I'm looking for though I won't know for quite awhile yet. I'm in the process of getting feedback from Perl folk on Perlmonks via the page http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=87383&lastnode_id=6364 . I must say that the private messages too me from fellow monks and the many quick reputation points I've recieved bode quite well for Ruby. I also want to applaud the writing in "Programming Ruby" it reads very well -- Just wish I could get use to reading online as my pocketbook would really appreciate it, but what the hey this way you folks gain a couple cents :) Jeff Bulley