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A few people started using Ruby for command line tools[1] but the community was very focuses around rails. Also Ruby isn't usually part of the standard OS install. So Ruby stayed stuck in it's Rails niche.

[1] Some listed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ruby_software_and_tool... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Free_software_program...



I think it's standard on macOS.




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