You'll find a lot of very helpful people on the ruby-forum.<p>I moved over from many years of java programming, and have loved what ruby has to offer. Meta-programming, open classes, closures, mixins and plenty more -- and I am not even hard-core.<p>Do read some source code of projects like Choice, Highline to get an idea of what ruby can do. If you like the command-line, I developed rbcurse while learning ruby.