From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-03-16T04:11:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Rails' effect on Ruby as a language

On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, Joshua Volz wrote:

> I am just starting to learn Ruby, and I am very excited about it.  In
> sharing my excitement with other programmers, I do often get the "well, what
> is written in Ruby?" question.  I can talk about Rails to some extent, but I
> think we do need more variety in the types of killer apps that we produce in
> Ruby.  Particularly for someone like me who is coming from an all Windows
> forms C# background.  The first question I got was "can you make scalable
> windows application in it?"
>
> Which, btw, if anyone has the answer to that question I would be eternally
> grateful.

not windows - but certainly 'scalable'

   http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7922

we've been running 30 or so computers for nearly two years now.  24x7.  over a
million jobs.  zero failurs.  zero admin time.

regards.

-a
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