Rails in School

From PragDave's blog:

"... I know of an undergraduate course in Scotland that will include a section using Ruby on Rails."

I wonder if college students can appreciate Ruby & Ruby on Rails. When I was in college there was a communications class that used Smalltalk. With little experience in different languages the joys of Smalltalk were easily lost on the students.

I wonder if it's possible to experience the happiness of Ruby without suffering through a few Java or C# projects.