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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

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.