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I agree with the Rails-centrism issue. Even alternative web frameworks have a hard time in the Ruby world.

I disagree with the assumption that Ruby is web only. E.g. Chef and Puppet are huge efforts that have no direct connection to frontend web, both written in Ruby. Vagrant as well. Ruby is big in the infrastructure world.

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It is funny to ready Ruby guys complaining of the lack of web frameworks alternatives. Python community likes to complain that they have too much web frameworks. Nobody is ever satisfied :-)

What about game framework, computer vision, scientific computing, robotics, etc? I'm sure you can come up with examples for each of these but most are either dormant/abandoned or simply non-existant. As for infrastructure, yes Chef and Puppet are big in the startup world but I know a lot more companies using Python or Java for that.

Does it help that I know far more companies using Chef and Puppet for that then Python and Java?

Depends, do they have a fraction of the IT staff that Tivoli and Opsware users have? I'm guessing not.

I usually work for DAX companies. Yes.

My point was that your personal sample is most probably irrelevant.

I've been doing some robotics stuff using my arduino and ruby via the dino gem (https://github.com/austinbv/dino)

Companies use Java instead of Puppet? How does the conversation go where you even start to compare those two things?

"Hey do we have $X million for Opsware?"

"Sure thing."

"Damn it feels good to be a banker."

For robotics, see Artoo: http://artoo.io/

http://www.rubymotion.com/ is an increasingly big deal for iOS (and now Mac) development.

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