“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…”