Good job, tenderlove, that's a nice performance boost.<p>Personally, I really dislike Ruby's syntax, though I haven't spent a huge amount of time with it (because I dislike the syntax). The use of bracers and other lexical markers makes code a lot clearer and faster to decipher, imo, than a bunch of def and ends. (I know that () are optional in Ruby, can you also use {} if you desire? Again, not 100% familiar with the language features. Just know some standard rails implementations of the language).<p>Maybe it just hasn't 'clicked' with me yet, but bleh. The dynamic typing doesn't help its case in my book either. That's my personal preference, and why I try to avoid using ruby, even for the web backed by rails despite it's popularity. Then again, if you need to get a web project up and running quickly rails is never a bad choice (in my experience).