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As for module support, 1.8.2 has a whole bunch of handy stuff in the
core.  There's an (SG|X)ML parser, there's a 'perldoc' analogue (rdoc
and ri), there's an HTTP server, there's SOAP and XML-RPC support,
there's a complete unit testing framework, . . . .  Check the stdlib docs:

<a  rel="nofollow" href="http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/";>http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/</a>

As for aftermarket stuff there's no CPAN yes, but rubygems is pretty
interesting and probably will be shipping with 1.8.3 I believe.  There's
also a good number of things available as source (and pointed at from
either raa.ruby-lang.org or rubyforge; but again granted it's not CPAN).


There's open-uri which overloads open() so that it handles URLs as
well as filenames.  This snippet (from <a  rel="nofollow" href="http://redhanded.hobix.com/";>http://redhanded.hobix.com/</a>)
uses it to grab the font size for the different categories and shows
their relative popularity on del.icio.us:

require 'open-uri'
t = open(&quot;<a  rel="nofollow" href="http://del.icio.us/tag/&quot";>http://del.icio.us/tag/&quot</a>;).read
l = %w(c c++ java javascript perl php python ruby)
l.map do |lang|
  [$1.to_f, lang] if t =~
    %r{/#{Regexp::quote lang}&quot;  style=&quot;font-size: (\d+\.\d{2})}
end.compact.sort {|a,b|b&lt;=&gt;a}.each do |score, lang|
  puts &quot;#{lang}: #{score}&quot;
end


Rails is what's gotten me to look at Ruby again.  I've been poking at
it since ~0.7.0 and it's really spiffy how quickly it &quot;just works&quot;
(I'd looked at Maypole for Perl but never got it to behave as well as
Rails did straight out of the box).


[0] Actually poking at python2.3 it looks like a couple that I
    remember actually may have gotten fixed (lambda actually makes a
    real closure now, for instance); but indicating block structure by
    indentation is still broken :)

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