My point was more that Ruby exploded because of a period when Rails was growing super fast. I don't know what the growth in RoR space is but I'm certain it's nowhere near what it was in late 2000s/early 2010s. And outside of that there's really not much in Ruby space.

Python was all over the place when RoR came out, meanwhile I only remember hearing about Ruby on random forum posts or by some enthusiast before RoR.