Making progress on Ruby project

I started writing a framework for my Ruby test site yesterday. All I need right now is a set of simple functions to display the source code of the programs I'm writing, and to execute them and display the results within a standard page format for the site. As is common with OOP languages, I'm just using the existing classes in a procedural manner for now. Once I start building up a larger codebase and have to deal with reuse issues, I will build some classes of my own. So far I'm finding Ruby to be a pleasant language to work with for what is now just text manipulation. The syntax stays out of your way, and it is extremely dynamic. So I can have code that constructs the test code I want to execute and then evaluates it and returns the result as a string. In this way it is reminiscient of the dBASE language, which is great for the "make it up as you go along" style I prefer. Today I hope to start building queries for Amazon in Ruby. I'll have more to say about that in later posts.