[parfe]

"very large" and "very loud" are two different things. I'm sure you'll take exception with any metric that shows Ruby to be a less common language but

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ruby 127 questions.

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/python 272 questions.

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/php 466

[bromagosa]

In a website for programming challenges, the market status of a language should be the least regarded metric to decide whether to include it or not.

Just check this out: http://projecteuler.net/languages

[buster]

What about the infamous TIOBE Index? http://www.tiobe.com/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html There should be atleast 3 other languages before ruby then ;)

[saintfiends]

https://github.com/languages

http://www.tiobe.com/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html

I wonder what made Lua take the leap.

[parfe]

The rails ecosystem moved to github bringing along the community. Ruby eggs, one basket.