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I caught wind of Rails’ release a few weeks behind the curve, and when I tried to run it, I admit I didn’t get very far… but that was largely because I was a Microsoft VB/ASP developer, and since I couldn’t believe what I was seeing — ActiveRecord sounded like an April Fool’s joke on newbies — I assumed that it was too good to be true and got distracted. However, it kick-started my exploration into Ruby; it was blocks and iterators that got me. Most importantly, it planted serious doubt that anything on .NET was going to be that cool.