>*As an experiment* I've put the code from Programming Ruby online at
>
>  http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/ruby/samples/

Absolutely excellent!

Now, if you could just write an update to the Ruby/Tk section of the
book that has an example of catching and ignoring an attempt to
destroy a window, I'll be a happy man :-).

I asume you got this web page up and running so quickly because it's
done in Ruby!