[busterarm]

The Ruby job market outside of Rails is tiny, unfortunately. Most folks never bothered to look. DevOps and InfoSec folks tend to know better -- Chef, Puppet, Capistrano, Vagrant, Logstash, Metasploit, Homebrew, Sass... all written in Ruby)

All of my ETL pipelines are built in Ruby and I wouldn't have it another way. From a development, support and deployment persective, Jekyll is hands-down the best "web framework" I've ever worked with. If you need to build websites that don't need sessions/accounts, there isn't a better tool. NGINX's SSI module fills in some (tiny) gaps.

Ruby's a great language with a healthy set of tools. It's just not popular among people making CRUD apps right now.

To most folks though, unless they're already Ruby developers (AND not a Rails shop), Ruby and Rails might as well be the same thing.

[flowardnut]

we use Sinatra and sequel for a few apps and it's great (and puma to run it all)

we have switched to python for our FaaS but only because of lack of Ruby support from AWS lambda.