Shane Parker is working on ‘Venom’ which is a Irrlicht binding for Perl, Phyton, Ruby, etc. and it sounds very promising. Take a look at the venom homepage, which is also hosted by sourceforge.
But that’s not the only cool news: Fabian Kranen is working on ‘Extenic’. It will be a portable layer on top of Irrlicht, which provides a generic way of managing a complete virtual world.
As always, I’ve added links to these two new projects on the link page.