> Hi all.
> 
>    I'm beginning with Ruby. It seems to be very nice, but I don't 
> know what to do with it. I was thinking about writing an IMAP client 
> or a Access-like Database interface, but I think I will begin with 
> something simpler.
> 
>    Anyone has an interesting project in Ruby out there?
> 
>    Regards,
> 
You may want to to look at the RAA (Ruby application archive) at 
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/raa.html and see what others have been doing.  
It may give you ideas. For a small program you mght want to write a 
programmers helper application, perhaps something that reads source files 
and creates a list of all classes and methods used.  This way you get to 
play with regualr expressiosn, file I/O, possibly hashtables (depending on 
how you track your data) and perhaps get something of prolonged practical 
value.