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Sadly, Rails pretty much is Ruby at this point. I don't think I've heard a company use Ruby for anything other than Rails in like a decade. If they are, it's be
by activitypea 5y ago
Sadly, Rails pretty much is Ruby at this point. I don't think I've heard a company use Ruby for anything other than Rails in like a decade. If they are, it's because they're already all in on Rails, so they might as well keep it in the same language :\
- multiplegeorges 5y agoI'm pretty sure most of Stripe is non-Rails Ruby, for one prominent example.
- DizzyDoo 5y agoOne quite interesting use of Ruby outside of Rails was its inclusion as the scripting language in various versions of RPG Maker, a popular piece of game creation software. The developers of the software are Japanese, like Yukihiro Matsumoto, and I gather Ruby is used in broader situations in Japan than Rails.
- your_username 5y agoBestBuy is a big Ruby shop.
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- atultw 5y agoIt's fairly popular for Mac. CocoaPods and homebrew are written in ruby
- andykx 5y agoI see Ruby used pretty frequently in small parts of larger systems. I looked at a customer’s project last week and they were using Ruby to parse incoming e-mail.
- barrkel 5y agoThe other somewhat significant use of Ruby that you may have heard of is Puppet. Much less in vogue for infrastructure as code these days but still useful for e.g. managing corporate fleets of Linux laptops.