Ruby

Description: Ruby is a relatively new language out of Japan. Ruby, like Python, has built-in support for object-oriented programming. There are modules available for MySQL, PostGreSQL, GTK-Bindings, and others,

History: Ruby was developed by Yukihiro Matsumoto and released in 1995. Ruby's native environment is UNIX/Linux but there is a native Windows version. The latest stable version of Ruby is 1.8.4 .
It also runs using Cygwin, DJGPP, or Mingw environments.
There is a recent article at ONLamp.com titled "Ruby's Present and Future." Read it here.

Applications: Many applications exist for Ruby.

Official Homepage: Ruby language Home Page

Newsgroup: comp.lang.ruby

Newsletter/magazine: none

Related links:
Native Windows version installer
Ruby Central
Wikipedia page for Ruby