"Ask any Ruby developer what led them to embrace the language, and most will praise its 'beauty,' comparing Ruby's syntax to a eloquent poem or piece of art. Admittedly, this sort of aggrandization used to elicit a sneer from yours truly, although at that point I'd never actually looked into the language to determine what all of the fuss was about. That is, until one day a single line of Ruby code caught my attention while surfing online:
7.days.ago
"Made possible through the Active Support gem, when executed, this line of code will return the date and time occuring exactly seven days prior to its execution..."
