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Re:Ruby Is Still a Diamond by dragonwriter on Thursday September 02, 2021 @12:14PM (#28393889)
> a lot of Ruby programmers really only know Ruby to the degree they know Rails

This so bad that frequently I see “Ruby on Rails” in lists of programming languages aside “PHP”, or “Elixir”, or “JavaScript”.

(When I was most in to Ruby – but not so much Rails, even then – there was actually a palpable divide in the community between the Rails-only community and the broader Ruby community, some of which was Rails-inclusive.)

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Re:Ruby Is Still a Diamond by MattGaiser on Thursday September 02, 2021 @12:20PM (#28393957)
Granted, I have never used it a lot except for hacky projects, but I have never used any Ruby except in the context of Rails. Is it really used for anything else?
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Re:Ruby Is Still a Diamond by JohnWhigham on Thursday September 02, 2021 @12:38PM (#28394203)
Yeah Rails is definitely a blessing and a curse. I only know of Chef and Puppet being kinda big, but both of those are waning in popularity.
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