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Does anyone know if Google uses Ruby for application development?
What are the general job prospects of Ruby compared to other languages like Perl or Python?
Aaron’s roughly right. We use C only for kernel work (and other maintenance on 3rd party stuff written in C) so I wouldn’t count that as “application development”, and Objective C for the very specific case of apps running client-side on Apple gear, etc.
Ruby is the embedded scripting language for Google Sketchup, see http://code.google.com/apis/sketchup/docs/gsrubyapi_examples.html — that decision was made before Google acquired “@Last Software”, Sketchup’s makers.
Regarding Nishant’s second question, in the wider job market, Ruby’s kind of OK: still low absolute numbers but good growth, see http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/programming-language-jobs-and-trends and http://blog.timbunce.org/2008/02/12/comparative-language-job-trend-graphs/ — the data are getting a bit long in the tooth, but it’s really hard to do these assessments in a very up-to-the-minute fashion;-).