diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 5ea8c33badd9f05ae03c1b75a0eff59c55259afa..1d74a78016444b4a4997a9090e06143e502ca934 100644
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@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+2008-09-30 Chris Allegretta <chrisa@asty.org>
+	* python.nanorc, ruby.nanorc: Add header lines for python and ruby as well
 2008-09-21 Chris Allegretta <chrisa@asty.org>
 	* rcfile.c, color.c, nano.h: Add new capability for matching a syntax type by the "header" (1st line)
 	  of a file being edited.  Based on Savannah bug 24197 and inital proof of concept by Dave Geering 
diff --git a/doc/syntax/python.nanorc b/doc/syntax/python.nanorc
index fc0907acba0913a1122e2d118c9b6aeda20f67ea..9a20318d3b3c5250d9a2590002a47e7057da4fa2 100644
--- a/doc/syntax/python.nanorc
+++ b/doc/syntax/python.nanorc
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 ## Here is an example for Python.
 ##
 syntax "python" "\.py$"
+header "^#!.*/python[-0-9._]*"
 icolor brightblue "def [0-9A-Z_]+"
 color brightcyan "\<(and|assert|break|class|continue|def|del|elif|else|except|exec|finally|for|from|global|if|import|in|is|lambda|map|not|or|pass|print|raise|return|try|while)\>"
 color brightgreen "['][^']*[^\\][']" "[']{3}.*[^\\][']{3}"
diff --git a/doc/syntax/ruby.nanorc b/doc/syntax/ruby.nanorc
index a557287ef1d3388bf0189f13e79cbbc41daff4b7..b30b229d0b505e2c5d3d1e61c885ed094da7afa1 100644
--- a/doc/syntax/ruby.nanorc
+++ b/doc/syntax/ruby.nanorc
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 ## Here is an example for Ruby.
 ##
 syntax "ruby" "\.rb$"
+header "^#!.*/ruby[-0-9._]*"
 ## Asciibetical list of reserved words
 color yellow "\<(BEGIN|END|alias|and|begin|break|case|class|def|defined\?|do|else|elsif|end|ensure|false|for|if|in|module|next|nil|not|or|redo|rescue|retry|return|self|super|then|true|undef|unless|until|when|while|yield)\>"
 ## Constants