Checkout this post by Rails developer David HH on explosive growth of Ruby books.. Sales are up 1552% at O'Reilly and they only have 2 books on the market. David also notes that Ruby books are out selling Python books. Pretty amazing stuff when you think about it. From obscurity to quite a buzz in about 1 year.

More evidence to me that Ruby is going to be the next big thing. It is just fun to program in the language. I haven't done any Rails programming yet, but I'm in the process of switching over to DreamHost as my ISP. Rails is the main reason for the switch. Hopefully around Christmas I get more of a chance to try some of this out.

I hope to be posting more on Ruby on the weeks and months to come. I'm just learning the language but I think I should share as I figure things out.

By the way, if you are interested in the two Ruby books, here they are.