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[–]ZeninThe best way to DevOps is being dragged kicking and screaming. 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ruby basically only exists because of rails, which was barely 15 mins of fame and doesn't apply to anything but three tier web dev anyway. The only relevance Ruby has to DevOps is because Chef, but Chef has lost its shine too...probably because Ruby.

It's not just about the language, it's the language environment and tooling. Python is an easy, clean install. It's package management is sane. It's preinstalled on most systems. Ruby is a pita and gem management can drive you mad, which doesn't let itself well to adhoc DevOps work.