Whatever Happened to the Ruby Programming Language?

Three years after Rails was introduced in 2005, InfoWorld asked whether it might the successor to Java.
That didn't happen. So this week InfoWorld "spoke to current and former Ruby programmers to try to trace the language's rise and fall." Some responses:"Rails came along at the cusp of a period of transformation and growth for the web," says Matthew Boeh, a Ruby developer since 2006. "It both benefited from and fueled that growth, but it was a foregone conclusion that it wasn't going to be the