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Why has Ruby gained popularity just recently?  Rogerio Kioshi
Ranch Hand  Joined: Apr 12, 2005 Posts: 688  I've heard that
Ruby is not a so new language. Why do you think Ruby has gained
more popularity just recently?  Thank you.  Peter Cooper
Joined: Jul 17, 2009 Posts: 25 Ruby's biggest boost of
popularity occurred between 2006 and 2008. It has tailed off a
little lately as it's found most of its audience already. A lot
of people jumped from languages like Perl and Python (and the
less determined Java folks!) during that time.  I don't really
like to admit it, but Ruby on Rails played a big part in getting
people interested in Ruby. Before then, it was still a cool
language but it was very Japan f