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Skydiving is amazing. It's an incredible rush. Flying through the air like that: the adrenaline, the freedom, the expectation before you jump! At least, that's what I've been told. I haven't actually been skydiving yet and perhaps never will. It's not that I'm a chicken, it's that my life-insurance policy actually says “no skydiving”. Well, maybe that's not quite it either but it doesn't matter. My point is that no matter how vividly I try to describe skydiving to you, I guarantee you that my girlfriend Desi or a number of other people I know will do a better job. Not because they're better storytellers, but simply because they've actually experienced it for real.

Have you actually written a Ruby on Rails application of your own yet? Meaning, a real, useful application, in order to see what these supposedly terrific productivity and happiness benefits are all about for yourself? Have you used any Ruby in your day-to-day work yet?

If your answer to the above questions is no, then please, please resist the temptation to evangelize about it. At best, you'll come off kind of flat and uninspiring. At worst, you'll give wrong, possibly misleading information. Reading and hearing about the benefits of Ruby and Rails is nothing compared to actually experiencing the benefits yourself. Make the jump, then tell us about it.