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I wonder what could be done in Ruby on the client that couldn't be done with Java or a web app. Most people won't want to set up the Ruby environment if they don't already have it - and the ones that do are too busy writing web apps to write thick client apps in Ruby.

Get Ruby to run in the browser to replace JS and I might be surprised. Using Ruby to write thick clients seems backwards to me.