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This was nearly a decade ago. I worked at a small app company (5-10 developers) for a bit that used Ruby on Rails for our product. The product was in active development, but was available to customers so it was “done”. We were hiring a senior level dev to oversee the team and we interviewed this guy (maybe in his 40s?, a but older than most people in tech) and he said his first order of business if hired would be to refactor the entire code base to php. I don’t think he was joking. I’m not sure why he interviewed.
Is there anything serious still running on a Ruby codebase nowadays? In PHP however...
GitLab is Ruby at least, I don't immediately remember any others but there probably are some
Github too or a least when you look at the github enterprises source code
What can they do tho?
I know of a bunch of less famous ones, but those are a few of the bigger ones that I’m aware of.
Only people supporting legacy regret.
Ruby was never good. It just got memed enough to make it way into some medium business
Isn't Mastodon Ruby?
Does Redmine count as serious?