As I looked at a couple projects the other day, I started wishing I could OOP-ify them, and then dreaded the thought of writing a perl package.  I've written two before, and didn't enjoy the experience.

So I started looking for a better language, much as it pained me.  I found Ruby.  I'm not talking rails, I'm talking Ruby.

ruby on ClearOS:
#yum install ruby-rdoc
see: http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=126
then pull down: wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/60718/rubygems-1.3.5.tgz
tar -zxvf rubygems-1.3.5.tgz
cd rubygems-1.3.5
ruby setup.rb

#yum install mysql-devel