Is anyone using Ruby for web development without Rails? If so, what were using your reasons for not going down the Rails route and how have you found the experience?
If you aren't doing web development, what non-web tasks are using Ruby for and how have you found the experience?
👤 SamReidHughes Accepted Answer ✓
I sometimes use Ruby as a Perl replacement, where I'd use Perl as a Bash replacement. Little scripts that invoke shell commands and the like, such as one I made to build my website. It's a superior Perl replacement.
I wouldn't use it for serious, big software, because it's dynamically typed, and worse, it has a grievously dynamic runtime.
We have Ruby for our sensu checks that run on our zounds of nodes. Ops folks seem to enjoy it. I dislike Ruby, and my dislike compounds every time I touch chef, nspec, mini test, or any Ruby test framework. So much magic and custom DSLs.