Top 3 improvements that Ruby offers?
Back when I was learning HTML, I loved how easy it to build pages and arrange everything just the way I wanted using tables.

Then I moved to CSS and learned that you could quickly swap designs without recoding your page. With just a few CSS changes your HTML designs could go from one theme to another and any element could become any other! With CSS I could design spans that looked like images!

Moving from HTML to CSS expanded my concept of design by implementing what I would later learn is modularizing things - just like MVC.

I am now a very competent PHP programmer who is thinking about Ruby. Most of the stuff I pull up on google is PHP vs Ruby rants which don't truly help anything. They are two different languages and take their style from different points. PHP looks like C++ `strlen($string)` while Ruby looks like server-side JavaScript. `str.len()`

I want to know the top 3 things about ruby that could really open my eyes as a programmer and justify the time I know it will take to pickup and master a new language.

> Please, no mention of abstract things
> like language maturity, or obvious
> library's like AR which exist in both
> languages. 
> 
> MVC is now used in almost every web
> programming language so it doesn't
> count either. It is also not
> sufficiant in and of it's self to
> cover everything. MVCLLCC
> (Model/View/Controller/Library/Locale/Cache/Config)
> is more accurate.
Top 3 improvements that Ruby offers?
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Back when I was learning HTML, I loved how easy it to build pages and arrange everything just the way I wanted using tables.

Then I moved to CSS and learned that you could quickly swap designs without recoding your page. With just a few CSS changes your HTML designs could go from one theme to another and any element could become any other! With CSS I could design spans that looked like images!

Moving from HTML to CSS expanded my concept of design by implementing what I would later learn is modularizing things - just like MVC.

I am now a very competent PHP programmer who is thinking about Ruby. Most of the stuff I pull up on google is PHP vs Ruby rants which don't truly help anything. They are two different languages and take their style from different points. PHP looks like C++ `strlen($string)` while Ruby looks like server-side JavaScript. `str.len()`

I want to know the top 3 things about ruby that could really open my eyes as a programmer and justify the time I know it will take to pickup and master a new language.

> Please, no mention of abstract things
> like language maturity, or obvious
> library's like AR which exist in both
> languages. 
> 
> MVC is now used in almost every web
> programming language so it doesn't
> count either. It is also not
> sufficiant in and of it's self to
> cover everything. MVCLLCC
> (Model/View/Controller/Library/Locale/Cache/Config)
> is more accurate.