Ryan Leavengood has been professionally developing software for 8 years, primarily using the Java programming language. But he has had a soft spot in his heart for Ruby since discovering it in 2001. Since then he has written a lot of Ruby scripts for various tasks at work and at home, including the original RubyGems prototype that he presented at RubyConf 2001. Ryan soon plans to become a professional Ruby developer, with his primary focus being Ruby on Rails web application development.