Ruby is a modern, object oriented scripting language which takes a pragramtic or practical approach to coding rather than a theoretical one. You'll find it has much of the richness of Perl (from which it inherits many features), and - when used as "Ruby on Rails" - all the easy integration for web use that PHP provides. But it can do much, much more than that too.

At Well House Consultants, we run:

• a 4 day Learning to Program in Ruby course for delegates who are new to computer programming, to give them a grounding in the fundamentals of programming and how they're applied to Ruby. The ourse also includes a brief introduction to Rails.

• a 3 day public Ruby course for delegates who are already experienced programmers in another language, to give them a good grounding on the fundamentals of Ruby and a brief introduction to Rails.

• a 1 day public Regular Expression course for delegates who are already familiar with Ruby, but want to learn more about Regular Expressions and how they're used

If you've a group of three or more delegates who wish to learn Ruby at the same time, a Specially Run Courses course can be arranged, and for larger groups we can also run a Private Courses course at your offices. Such courses are tailored to meet your requirements - for example, we are able to provide a private course for newcomers to programming, and we can extend the coverage of topics such as Rails beyond that on the public course. Please contact us to discuss the detail of what you need.

Ruby was written Yukihiro Matsumoto ("Matz"), and he remains very much involved with the language. You can read about him and link to downloads from here