any ruby programmers who are perl users?

Most likely just out of curiosity factor, I picked up a book "Learning 
to program " the facets of ruby series..

While very simple in nature, book try to teach computer programming 
concept while giving some ruby lesson..
Even though I am still a beginner for perl, I just wanted to pick up 2nd 
language to get some different view and in hopes of gaining
better understanding of OOP so that I can start to pick OOP up in perl...

When I program ruby, I feel like it's just like perl(well just in my 
limited runs w/ ruby) w/out all the more strict grammar and it's fairly
easy to learn(now that I have spent good amount of time learning perl in 
begining stages that is) on very very elementry level.(meaning
I am sure as I explore more I will realize the differences of the 2 
languages).
I am going to assume for now that ruby will run slower than perl..........

That lead me to my question.. is there perl guru who are also avid ruby 
users?
Our company does not use ruby at all so I cannot really see using ruby 
for work but just was wondering ...  (but then my job is
not really programming but I still create perl based project ).