Dekks Herton@tom_dalling are web apps the be and end all of ruby? or is their more to it as a tool.
Lj.rb@dekkzz78 @tom_dalling if I understood the question, from my viewpoint Ruby is pretty universal tool. Web based apps are future - no doubt on that (at least GUI ones). However judging from other developments today there is way more data science usage than actual web usage. So I guess if Ruby finds its way into data area it will continue floating. I think Rails made Ruby known and useful to wide audience, but this was in the same time a curse - diminishing focus on other uses.
Jason Ormes
@skryking interesting thx for links
@ljgww_rb @tom_dalling LJ i'm fine about my choice of ruby, but Rails seems controversial even with the ruby community. As my interest in ruby is for personal satisfaction only i wasn't going to look at Rails much hence my original question.
@dekkzz78 @tom_dalling several system admin tools use it as well as security tools.
Tom Dalling@dekkzz78 In theory, Ruby is a general purpose language, and you can use it for anything. In practice, the majority of Ruby developers are Rails developers. I still think it's a great language, but I wish we would branch out more.
@tom_dalling i got a hint of your feelings about branching out in your interview with Piotr Solnica
@tom_dalling i see Piotr has moved somewhat towards exlir and i see why FP would be a benefit for Ruby. Don't know much about Rails, i'll get to that in a few months as i work my way past 1.9
James Thompson@dekkzz78 @tom_dalling I started using Ruby as a replacement for Perl for systems administration. It’s really good for that and the sorts of things you might do with shell scripts.
бyron@plainprogrammer @dekkzz78 @tom_dalling I use it a lot for sysadmin type tasks. I have a workflow: I start by making a simple shell or Perl script. If it gets a bit more complex I rewrite it in Ruby.
I still find Perl better for tiny scripts and one liners but Ruby better for making longer programs.
@byron @plainprogrammer @tom_dalling so far it's rails, "super scripting", metasploit - whicg is kinda scripting and nothing else, i expected more.
@dekkzz78 @byron @plainprogrammer @tom_dalling https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/tree/e86c79fbc01d08f73841a525d29c03c5243081fa is kind of cool if you are a mac user. puppet if you are a sysadmin https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/tree/36f39c6ef1d95a0f0508ddab74a903d58dcd12ee
@dekkzz78 @byron @tom_dalling last year’s RubyConf had a number of talks around data science, including Ruby for GPU number crunching coordination. There’s lots of folks doing interesting stuff with Ruby. And, it can be pretty eclectic.