Why start with Ruby?

Answer 1

might because its syntax is easy to understand & small code do good work

Answer 2

That is your decision. But certainly Ruby is fun, and has a lot of material on the web that was created with the intention of being accessible to the public. The community behind Ruby seemed to me that at the time they did a great job providing material so that everyone could get into the language.

Even so, you should evaluate what you want to do and based on that look for experiences of other developers in the field that you want to develop. For example if you want to make games I would not recommend Ruby, although it has some very easy to learn libraries and although the code and work methodology that follow are very nice (as in the case of the Gosu gem) to be a scripting language It is slow, and that is something to take into account (although in general take a scripting language to make a game can penalize performance).

Answer 3

Ruby is one of the most fun to code, but I would suggest python over it.