Rapid Development with Ruby/JRuby and Rails

This document discusses Ruby and Rails development. It provides an overview of Ruby as a scripting language created by Yukihiro Matsumoto in 1993 with a focus on readability. Key aspects of Ruby covered include conventions, classes, symbols, closures, duck typing, and metaprogramming. The document also discusses how JRuby allows Java developers to use Ruby on the JVM and benefit from Ruby tools like Rails.