[Argorak]

Thats wrong, Ruby is also used in a lot of devopsy stuff and I've seen quite a few uses of Ruby in other fields. Also, even the web community is rather fragmented now.

Also don't ignore that Ruby has a _huge_ subcommunity in asia that you rarely get any news from, using the language for many other things.

Still, an aggressive push towards the future is part of the Ruby mindset. If your lib doesn't work with Ruby 2.1, it is not considered maintained. That helped _a lot_ during the 1.8->1.9 transition, which was basically Rubys Python 3 moment. The Ruby community managed to cross that bridge.