Just watched the 1st and 2nd episodes Venkat gave about Ruby on dnrTV! and all I can say is WOW!  My only exposure to Ruby so far is a few Watir scripts I've written just for fun.  But now I really do see what all the hype is about.  I'm pretty passionate about writing code that is elegant and reads naturally so Ruby seems to be a perfect fit for me.  I'm very interested to start digging more into this awesome language, and of course the Rails framework.

Venkat is an excellent presenter and really had me on the edge of my seat about what cool thing he was going to do next in Ruby.  I'd highly recommend watching his episodes. 

He's also done a 3rd episode on some of the cool Ruby-ish type stuff you can do now in C# and in the soon coming C# 3.0 and LINQ.  Looking forward to watching that one soon.