Ruby Culture : the ruby-talk mailing list

Ruby is a fun and interesting language to use. This is for sure. At first it looks a bit mysterious, but it grows on you. Ruby promotes a good friendly culture among its users because it is enjoyable to use Ruby. You can see this in action every single day on the ruby-talk mailing list. People are mostly polite and friendly and usually try to avoid flame wars. People go to the ruby-talk list with questions of course! But rather than the usual pile of RTFM or see the docs or this has already been answered in another thread that you get with other languages (perl might be an exception), people also visit the ruby-talk list to look for interesting puzzles to solve, to challenge themselves and find out if there is a better way to do it.

Good stuff.