From: Pat Maddox <pergesu@...>
Date: 2005-04-17T05:21:52+09:00
Subject: Re: All Quiet on the Western Front: Is Rails overshadowing Ruby?

Ruby can't be a subset technology of Rails, simply because Rails is a
subset of Ruby :)

For my purposes, using Ruby outside of Rails just isn't necessary.  My
shop only develops web applications, so it would make sense that Rails
gets far more use, at least from us.  We don't use PHP to write
command line apps either.

Ruby's a nice language, but I think it's particularly well suited for
web development.  I can't say I see anything wrong with the direction
it seems to be taking.



On 4/16/05, Trans <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
> Perhaps I have a skewed perspective (it happens :-), but it seems as if
> the ruby-talk mailing list has become rather "calm" in recent months.
> While Ruby-core appears to have a bit of activity, much of it seems a
> response to the stillness on talk. And alternate Ruby lists seem to
> have fallen largely silent, with one expection: Rails. So I wonder, is
> Ruby at risk of becoming little more than a subset techonolgy of Rails?
> 
> T.
> 
>