This is a completely different statement than your original one. I think there's plenty of support for non-webapp Ruby, and that its very competitive with Pytho

This is a completely different statement than your original one. I think there's plenty of support for non-webapp Ruby, and that its very competitive with Python outside of web application arena (look at Chef or Puppet for a couple examples). But Python is _clearly_ the dominant language in a scientific environment, at least between it and Ruby. But like I said, that wasn't your initial statement.