Dekks Herton@tom_dalling are web apps the be and end all of ruby? or is their more to it as a tool.
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 @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.