Re:Happy Birthday, Ruby
by bdcravens on Thursday January 10, 2019 @12:54PM
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> Is there any reason to use Ruby outside Rails?
Same reason you'd use any language I suppose. It works as a scripting language, etc. For example, docker-sync, which solves file syncing issues with Docker for Mac (and works on other platforms, but less of an issue there) is written as a Ruby gem.
With AWS recently adding Ruby support to Lambda, my presumption is there's a customer demand there.
Myself, I write a lot of Ruby code that isn't Rails.
Same reason you'd use any language I suppose. It works as a scripting language, etc. For example, docker-sync, which solves file syncing issues with Docker for Mac (and works on other platforms, but less of an issue there) is written as a Ruby gem.
With AWS recently adding Ruby support to Lambda, my presumption is there's a customer demand there.
Myself, I write a lot of Ruby code that isn't Rails.