Comment by nauticacom

    I don't program in Ruby but every time I look at it I see something different depending on who wrote the code and what their personal style is

I'd say this is a plus, at least in certain dimensions. One of the best descriptions I've heard of Rails' ActiveSupport (a collection of extensions to built-in types included in Rails) is as a dialect of Ruby, one specific for developing web applications. Other domains could and should use different dialects.