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Ruby was originally created as a multi-paradigm language. Recently, it's just been a web programming language, thanks to Ruby on Rails. While it's not a bad thing, and has certainly shot Ruby into the mainstream programming community, what about the other parts? What about systems coding?

Well, look no further. I looked and noticed I didn't have the tree command installed on my Xubuntu box, and decided this would be as good a test as any for the workhorse. I fired up gedit and away I went! After only about fifteen or twenty minutes, I'd pounded out a working version.