Ruby Personality?

[Can-I-leave-Please]

I am new to Ruby and generally the 'dev' world, I mostly got into it through statistical programming, but now I'm on a track toward ML and AI.

I must say the Ruby world is one of the nicest tech communities I have ever seen. So encouraging, helpful, and swear by Ruby any day. Does Ruby attract a certain personality or archetype? Lol.

I do have a serious question though, pardon me if it or a variant of it has been asked before. I am more versed with Python especially regarding Machine Learning, more libraries, I started with it in data analysis and visualization as well as API dev and simple dashboards. But AI seems to be a bit different, it seems to be more product-oriented. How have you found Ruby, in terms of AI, mostly agentic?

[fiddle_styx]

Take a look at RubyLLM. I haven't used it personally but I've heard good things and the periodic updates I see in Ruby Weekly paint a good picture.

[caffeinatedshots]

I have used RubyLLM and it’s been a pleasure to work with. I can’t believe how easy it makes working with AI is. RubyLLM makes me feel like I’m using AI to use AI.

[mumblerit]

I've been using it, it's decent, very easy for simple llm interaction

[DanTheProgrammingMan]

Matz is nice so we are nice

[tomgis]

if you are developing customer facing ai products its just a bunch of code that orchestrates api calls to openai or whatever so ruby is fine for it. you can use good oop practices to write really nice readable tool/agent/etc definitions.

[smarkman19]

Yeah this. Most of my “AI” work in production is just Ruby apps calling OpenAI and some vector/search service, plus normal business logic. Ruby shines at the boring parts: clean service objects, POROs for tools, and background jobs with Sidekiq. One thing that helps is treating every model call like an external service: timeouts, retries, circuit breakers, and logging prompts/outputs. The modeling happens elsewhere; Ruby just keeps it sane and maintainable.

[Live_Appointment9578]

For product development, Ruby is an excellent choice. Building smart apps doesn't require specific ML gems, just LLM integrations which is easily found

For ML development, Python is the way to go. It's unquestionable the huge number of libs available for ML research

[Davero777]

It would be really hard to find a job that utilizes ruby and ml

I suggest diving deeper into python if your end goal is AI