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I think it's quite sad that Ruby is so associated with Rails. Ruby is one of my favorite languages and last time that I touched a Rails code was in 2017. Even i
by lucasoshiro 2y ago
I think it's quite sad that Ruby is so associated with Rails. Ruby is one of my favorite languages and last time that I touched a Rails code was in 2017. Even in web dev Rails is not the only thing in Ruby, there's also Sinatra which is an elegant micro-framework for building HTTP APIs, similar to Flask.
Some projects that I remember that uses Ruby that are not related to web dev: Homebrew, Metasploit, Vagrant and Jekyll.
I also find Ruby very useful for shell scripts. I wrote a blog post about that some months ago, you can read it and the discussion about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40763640 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40763640
- Levitating 2y agoCongratulations on getting Matz to tweet about your post.
- lucasoshiro 2y agoThanks! I never thought this would reach him!
- watercolorblind 2y agoSome other examples: DragonRuby, and Chef (which I prefer over ansible).
- UncleOxidant 2y agoI got into Ruby kind of early, around 2001. When Rails initially came out a few years later (circa 2004, IIRC) I remember being excited to see something putting Ruby out there giving it some publicity. But in a few years I think a lot of us were regretting the fact that most people's view of Ruby was formed by Rails.