Question

Is Ruby primarily only used in ruby on rails? Is it used on the server side for general work like php is? Also, I haven’t seen a lot of hype about rails anymore. Is Ruby and/or RoR dead or fading away?

I ask because I was interested in RhoMobile for building mobile apps, but I didn’t want to get into using an antiquated language.

Thanks.

edit: Can i use Ruby for web pages if I don’t want to use rails? (I do not mean another framework. I mean like php.)

Answer 1

There are many web-frameworks for Ruby, not just Rails, Sinatra being one of them.

You shouldn’t be deciding to use a language or technology, because there is or there is not a hype around it.

If a product is able to solve your problems, then you should use it. I know people building stuff in Smalltalk nowadays (who would have thought, right?), because it’s great and it works.