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I'm curious though, what was the uptake on Ruby before Rails? I wasn't aware of Python/Ruby back in those times, but my impression now is Python was widely use

I'm curious though, what was the uptake on Ruby before Rails? I wasn't aware of Python/Ruby back in those times, but my impression now is Python was widely used prior to Rails existence... in academia, science, mathematics, etc, but Ruby was not much on the map until Rails came along. I'm not saying this is how is was - I honestly don't know, just my impression as someone fairly new to this stuff. I would appreciate if someone who was familiar with the Ruby community prior to Rails could shed some light on this. Doing some google searches turns up minimal clues. The wikipedia on Ruby says "Around 2005, interest in the Ruby language surged in tandem with Ruby on Rails, a popular web application framework written in Ruby. Rails is frequently credited with making Ruby "famous""

kibwen 14y ago
While I wouldn't quite recommend the TIOBE index in general, it's still useful for attempts to identify significant events in the history of a language's popularity. Here's its historical graph for Ruby: http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/paperinfo/tpci/Ruby.html http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/paperinfo/tpci/Ruby.html According to this, Ruby really exploded in 2006 after holding steady for quite some time in relative obscurity. Now you just need to figure out when Rails became hugely popular to check for a correspondence.
- dpritchett 14y ago
  I believe it was this presentation in November 2005: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzj723LkRJY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzj723LkRJY
petercooper 14y ago
I'm curious though, what was the uptake on Ruby before Rails? Prior to 2005, reasonable in Japan and poor in the West. Analogous to the position of Erlang, say, in 2012. The influx of new users and attention after 2005 could have turned into a more mainstream success for the language and for years, I thought it would pan out, but I'm not sure it has.

kibwen 14y ago

While I wouldn't quite recommend the TIOBE index in general, it's still useful for attempts to identify significant events in the history of a language's popularity. Here's its historical graph for Ruby: http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/paperinfo/tpci/Ruby.html http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/paperinfo/tpci/Ruby.html According to this, Ruby really exploded in 2006 after holding steady for quite some time in relative obscurity. Now you just need to figure out when Rails became hugely popular to check for a correspondence.

dpritchett 14y ago
I believe it was this presentation in November 2005: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzj723LkRJY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzj723LkRJY

petercooper 14y ago

I'm curious though, what was the uptake on Ruby before Rails? Prior to 2005, reasonable in Japan and poor in the West. Analogous to the position of Erlang, say, in 2012. The influx of new users and attention after 2005 could have turned into a more mainstream success for the language and for years, I thought it would pan out, but I'm not sure it has.