Many people use Ruby in their daily jobs. Others just as a hobby. Here you’ll find a small sample of real world usage of Ruby.
Simulations
- NASA Langley Research Center uses Ruby to conduct simulations. More…
- A research group in Motorola uses Ruby to script a simulator, both to generate scenarios and to post process the data.
Business
- Toronto Rehab uses a RubyWebDialogs based app to manage and track on-call and on-site support for the IT help desk and IT operations teams.
Robotics
- At MORPHA project, Ruby was used to implemented the reactive control part for the Siemens service robot.
Networking
- Open Domain Server uses Ruby to allow people using Dynamic DNS clients to update in real time their IP configuration so that it can be mapped to static domains.
Telephony
- Ruby is being used within Lucent on a 3G wireless telephony product.
System Administration
- Ruby was used to write the central data collection portion of Level 3 Communications Unix Capacity and Planning system that gathers performance statistics from over 1700 Unix (Solaris and Linux) servers scattered around the globe.
Web Applications
- Basecamp, a web-based project management application developed by 37signals, is programmed entirely in Ruby.
- 43 Things allows you to keep a list of goals and share it with the world. It was developed entirely in Ruby.
- A List Apart, a magazine for people who make websites that has been around since 1997, has recently been revamped and uses a custom application built with Ruby on Rails.
- Blue Sequence, a sophisticated mission-critical application which forms part of Toyota Motor Manufacturing’s own “sequence-in-time” production process, has recently been selected as finalist in this years British Computer (BCS) Information Management Awards.