I use it all the time (and have for at least 9 years now) as a general purpose scripting language. Like, stuff that I could do in bash, but if I do it in ruby i

I use it all the time (and have for at least 9 years now) as a general purpose scripting language. Like, stuff that I could do in bash, but if I do it in ruby it will be 10x more understandable and way more concise to boot. Sure, I could also do the same stuff in perl or python, but personally I find ruby to be far more expressive.