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Ruby has a lot of web frameworks too. All your experience means is that you don't pay much attention to Ruby (which is fine, I'm only vaguely aware of the 3 you listed for Python)

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How many of these are widely used in production? Merb was close. But now its part of Rails. Leaving these 2 there aren't any in the Ruby world. I see Sinatra blinking somewhere. But its far far away.

Sinatra is widely used and becoming pretty ubiquitous. It's supplanting camping, which was also relatively widely used, but not nearly as much as sinatra.

The Merb/Rails merge reveals some reasons why there aren't a lot of widely used Ruby frameworks, and I'd say it's mostly a large scale manifestation of DRY, combined with the maturity and wealth of features in the Rails codebase and the fact that most of the changes devs would like to see in Rails are already going into it.

Ramaze would come somewhere after Sinatra, most likely, though it has mostly been used for intranet apps.

How do you now this? How do you get the stats on what framework is in use?

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