I do the vast majority of my hobby programming (and whatever amount of my professional programming that I can get away with) in Ruby. It is the perfect language for anyone who values elegance, beauty, flexibility, and power, while at the same time insists on a language that actually allows you to get things done.
Ruby’s the only language I’ve ever used that feels like it was designed by a programmer, and not by a hardware engineer (Java, C, C++), an academic theorist (Lisp, Haskell, OCaml), or an editor of PC World (Python).