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I was intrigued by it for a while. I can remember the jokes from years ago that it should be renamed the Rails programming language. I find it a shame when an o

• chillfox 6y ago
  For sure. Ruby is great for things other than rails, like automation, writing server scripts, and of course small api servers/web sites using sinatra. I use it all the time and still haven't actually done anything with Rails. The last thing I wrote in Ruby was a script to help manage my email inbox using imap.
  • vidarh 6y ago
    I've worked with Ruby for ~15 years now, and I've used Rails maybe 2 of those and it was the worst experience. I think Rails really was a very mixed blessing for Ruby - on one hand it brought a lot of people. On the other hand it associated the language with a whole lot of practices that has done long term damage.