I've written Ruby commercially for about for 20 years, and dislike Rails. Pretty much none of my use have involved it. That includes web dev. Use of Ruby outsid

I've written Ruby commercially for about for 20 years, and dislike Rails. Pretty much none of my use have involved it. That includes web dev. Use of Ruby outside of Rails is more low key, but it's out there. My last project involved Sinatra for our web app and financially modelling and simulations for a VC fund in Ruby. For NLP you will have less choice than for Python, but worst case you can bridge to Python code.