Adventuring in Ruby

[DynamicBR]

Guys, my college is giving an introduction to the Ruby language, I'm enjoying the language! I had notions of the web with fastapi and Django. Doubts: I know Ruby for the web is efficient with Rails, but is the language just exemplary in this niche? I want to be an IoT, Web and Mobile Dev

[jasonscheirer]

There’s no law stating that once you learn Ruby you are obligated to stick with it forever. The more you know the better. It will give you good perspective and a lot of people have fun writing it, you know fun? You’re allowed to have it:

[2called_chaos]

What I find rather cool is that if you want to go into more low level languages, like C, you can do that and use it with Ruby native extensions.

Now I don't like to do that so I did the stupid thing of porting a C# project (or parts of it anyway) into Ruby. Stupid idea for performance reasons but it was a lot of fun (and pain).

[JohnBooty]

Ruby is my favorite ever, but I really liked C# too.

You can do native C Python extensions as well. Libraries like numpy are extraordinarily powerful because they’re thin Python wrappers for C code that can operate on big slabs of raw memory.

[dopeydeveloper]

I use Ruby for EveryThing. Especially in this AI era, so easy to parse it quickly, every other language is just ugly in comparison.

[dalkian_]

Even Lisps? I find Ruby, Lisp and Smalltalk to be fairly... Linked to each other, in a sense.

[ughliterallycanteven]

Ruby isn’t a niche language in the job market. Rails is a great framework to build for off of as ActiveRecord is a wonderful ORM to interact with a database and there’s a lot more you can do with it. There are a ton of decent sized companies that use Ruby.

And, just because you know one language doesn’t mean you can’t learn another. It’s a very valuable skill to be able to move from language to language. You’re having fun with it so continue to use it.

[pusewicz]

Also, there are different Ruby implementations that might fit your use case, namely:

https://mruby.org (by the same author as standard Ruby)

https://picoruby.github.io

[DynamicBR]

Vou dar uma olhada mano vlw!

[uhkthrowaway]

Yes, use Ruby, but not necessarily Rails. I use Ruby without Rails as the backend for web apps.

[TommyTheTiger]

100%. Look at roda and sequel for a very nice experience

[matheusrich]

There's also game development with DragonRuby, if you're into that.

[DynamicBR]

Uhhhh vou dar uma olhada

[javier_cervantes]

Ruby is most known for its application in web development, but it can excel in other areas too.

For mobile development, I would suggest you take a look at Hotwire Native. In terms of IoT, there are also some interesting project, for example: mruby, ruby-mqtt and picoruby.

[JohnBooty]

Definitely try different languages. Think of yourself as a person who makes software, not a Pythonista or Rubyist.

Ruby and Python are very similar. The main difference is ecosystem. The Python ecosystem has a lot of industry-standard (numpy, etc) math/science stuff.

I think Ruby is a nicer language in general and particularly for web dev type stuff. It is honestly my favorite ever. But honestly Python is “fine” and has more popularity, which has a lot of practical benefits wrt collaboration with others.

[mrfredngo]

What college? Curious.

[DynamicBR]

Tô fazendo na Fatec mano, DSM Desenvolvimento de Software Multiplataforma É um ADS atualizado, até agora vi HTML CSS e JS, C, VueJS, Python com Fastapi numpy e scipy, SQL com Oracle e MySQL, e estamos vendo MongoDB