I am thinking about learning Ruby. Some awesome things like Oh-my-Zsh and Homebrew are built using Ruby. Read many posts about it. Some say Ruby is overrated and cannot be scaled.

What do you devs think?

Comment for notifs. Also would like to know

Haven't used it personally but a lot of the better devs I know have and rate it highly

@dan-pud Yes I've read a lot of praise for Ruby which has made me quite curious about Ruby ecosystem.

The Ruby language is quite nice and intuitive. But make sure you don't just pigeonholed into only working in a single framework (such as Rails if you're working in the web-space).

It's fun to code in, and the syntax is nicely readable.

To really cook your noodle with Ruby, check out RubyTapas by Avdi Grimm - he has super quick videos showing various tricks that Ruby is capable of.

With regards to scalability, one of Japan's largest cooking/food websites (Cookpad) is written in Rails and boasts an insane number of active members and recipes. I was watching a video a few months back which described their CI and auto-scaling services that they have setup which ramp up processing power as needed.

Depending on your intentions, Ruby also has a few interpreters that allow you to run your code on different platforms. JRuby for Java based; CRuby for C based; even MRuby to get your code running on a PIC.

Each language has it's drawbacks, but I suppose that's why we all tend to know more than one..

omz is a treat. I folded it in w my tmux environment and I always get questions from sysadmins and other devs because the power line cli theme is so pretty and tweakable

Check out Elixir

Ruby is great, but limited. If you like Ruby’s syntax but want a faster language give Crystal a look over http://crystal-lang.org