From: Kirk Haines <khaines@...>
Date: 2004-08-12T11:41:23+09:00
Subject: Re: What are people using Ruby for?

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 11:26:10 +0900, jmh wrote
> I'm not currently a Ruby user but have heard about it for a
> while (few years). I've started looking into it and will get
> around to compiling it in the next few weeks but was curious
> how people are using the language. Is it primarily for
> sys admin tasks? Internal applications? External customers?
> Commercial applications?

All of the above.  My biggest use of Ruby is for writing web applications 
for businesses, as well as using it to power web sites with dynamic content 
such as mutual fund price information, construction site reports, and stuff 
like that, and even in some cases to be the power behind entire web sites.

Secondarily I also use it for sys admin tasks and non-web application that 
are both internaly and externaly facing.


Kirk Haines