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> If you're doing AI stuff, any Python framework will be best.

I understand that AI stuff now is mainly Python. But is it possible to connect Rails with some Python program/service, is this one of the purpose of microservices?

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I work for a company that uses Rails. We don't have any Python code, but we use a lot of AI.

Thank you for your reply. In your other comment, you mention that you know Ruby relatively well. Would you recommend learning Ruby along side with Rails (i.e., learning Ruby in/with Rails), if I have some experience with other languages, such as Java, Python, C/C++, Lisp, and so on?

Also are there any Ruby AI libraries that you would recommend? Thanks!

Yes, of course. One of the Ruby shops I worked for did exactly this.

But why add the extra complexity? Ruby and Python are similar enough in terms of productivity and processing time that there's no reason to do this IMHO.

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