Ruby: Do you use it?

[aceO07]

I just recently started learning Ruby and developed a simple app and GUI for it. Soon I'll be learning Ruby on Rails.

Do you use Ruby? What for? Are there any other major uses besides Ruby on Rails?

 

[ppdes]

It has replaced Perl as general utility language for me. I use it to intelligently spider/search web sites, to extract titles from complex named files and move them into directories named with the title, to hunt down duplicate files and keep the one deepest in the directory hierarchy, to generate a static statistics/ranking page each day for one of my sites, etc.. My Ruby code seems much cleaner and simpler than the old Perl stuff.

 

[fs5]

we use it for web deployment
http://www.capify.org/

 

[esun]

Well Ruby is as much a general purpose scripting language as any of the other popular ones (e.g. Perl and Python). I still love Perl more than anything else for UNIX scripting, but in principle you can use Ruby (as it sounds like ppdes does).