From: "Aleksi Niemelä" <aleksi.niemela@...>
Date: 2000-07-16T15:07:31+02:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:04058] Re: What are you using Ruby for?

Dave asks:
>A quick survey: what are all you folks (yes, including all you lurkers 
>out there) using Ruby for? As well as the normal scripting stuff, are
>there people using Ruby in interesting ways?
                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

and the rest of the people answers:
> > > 1) mailer
> > > 2) Linux management tools
> > 
> > 3) Functional testing; building stub or driver to test.
> >   Testing target: CGI, router, palmware, ...
> > 4) Website management tools
> >   sync, backup, log aging, ...
> 
> 5) Numerical computation
> 6) Mail manipulation

7) one-liners 
8) coevolutionary simulations and analysis 

I'm not entirely sure about one-liners (not enought experience), but few
I've had need lately worked fine.

To whom I should post my address where the special prize for first cool
entry should be delivered. :)

	- Aleksi