I think the peak hype of ruby was just the peak hype of rails. I don't ever think it was that popular outside of it. That having been said - it's still the mos

I think the peak hype of ruby was just the peak hype of rails. I don't ever think it was that popular outside of it. That having been said - it's still the most practical scripting language IMHO. Expressive, nice sized std library, like 10x faster implementations that it used to have an its heyday. And rake is an amazing tool for doing stuff you might use make for, but actually works in the modern world (filenames can have spaces in them).