Why Aren't There C Conferences?

Re:Why Aren't There C Conferences? by dymk on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @04:38PM (#18506313)

Ruby is used in a lot of places where Rails isn't, by a few large companies. The one that comes to mind is Stripe, which has at least a couple hundred engineers writing Ruby code that has nothing to do with web development (much less Rails).

While Rails certainly did a huge amount to make the language popular, there's lots of things Ruby is good at aside from concatenating snippets of HTML.

Actually, that being said, while maybe 90% of personal Ruby projects don't use Rails, a good half use ActiveRecord in some capacity. I wonder how much that makes it a Rails project, by some reasonable definition.

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Re:Why Aren't There C Conferences? by kevinconaway on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @06:41PM (#18506934)

>Ruby is used in a lot of places where Rails isn't, by a few large companies.

And indirectly by many more who use chef

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Re:Why Aren't There C Conferences? by jhbadger on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @09:46PM (#18507584)

And many people use Homebrew on OSX, or Linuxbrew (homebrew for Linux -- useful especially for users of beowulf clusters who often don't have rights to install anything except in their home directories), and brew and its formulas are written in Ruby.

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