What a nice little article… over on the IBM developer works website Andrew Glover nicely compares and contrasts common Java idioms with their Ruby counterparts. For all those people out there who find the Ruby magic a bit daunting and who look at Rails and freak out when stuff seems to happen behind a curtain take a look at this article. I think it is a really nice comparison between the two languages that is a good super-light-weight introduction to Ruby for experienced Java developers. Also look at the bottom of the article for lots of other goodies introducing Ruby further.