From: Adelle Hartley <adelle@...>
Date: 2005-04-17T10:43:36+09:00
Subject: Re: All Quiet on the Western Front: Is Rails overshadowing Ruby?

T 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?

I feel my perspective is skewed too, as I have only been using a subset of
Rails (ActiveRecord).

I stumbled across Ruby when I was looking for Windows-friendly scripting
languages in which to use the COM-based ORM layer that I was developing.
Then I discovered ActiveRecord which was practically a prototype of what I
was working on.  A couple of hours of coding later (spread very thinly
between other work) and I'd written a few extensions to AR that made it into
exactly what I wanted.

Now I'm using Ruby to prototype other parts of my application stack.  It's a
brilliant language.

The web isn't the only platform that people write software for.

Adelle.