Were it not for Rails, most people wouldn't have heard of Ruby. It is unfortunate that Ruby doesn't get more general computing use, but Rails is really just th

Were it not for Rails, most people wouldn't have heard of Ruby. It is unfortunate that Ruby doesn't get more general computing use, but Rails is really just the tip of the iceberg in a big project that uses Ruby. (You still get to do a lot of nice work that isn't Rails specific, at least if you structure your system well.)