Many people use Ruby in their daily jobs. Others just as a hobby. Hereyou’ll find a small sample of real world usage of Ruby.

Simulations

• NASA Langley Research Center uses Ruby to conduct simulations.

• A research group inMotorola uses Ruby to script a simulator,both to generate scenarios and to post process the data.

3D Modeling

• Google SketchUp is a 3D modeling application that uses Ruby forits macro scripting API.

Business

• Toronto Rehab uses a RubyWebDialogs-based app to manage and trackon-call and on-site support for the IT help desk and IT operationsteams.

Robotics

• At MORPHA project, Ruby was used to implement the reactivecontrol part for the Siemens service robot.

Telephony

• Ruby is being used within Lucent on a 3G wireless telephonyproduct.

System Administration

• Ruby was used to write the central data collection portion ofLevel 3Communications Unix Capacity and Planning system that gathersperformance statistics from over 1700 Unix (Solaris and Linux) serversscattered around the globe.

Web Applications

• Basecamp, a web-based project management application, is programmed entirely in Ruby.

• A List Apart, a magazine for people who make websites that hasbeen around since 1997, has recently been revamped and uses a customapplication built with Ruby on Rails.

Security

• TheMetasploit Framework, a community open source projectmanaged byRapid7, is a free penetration testing platform thathelps IT professionals assess the security of their networks andapplications. The Metasploit Project consists of over 700,000 lines ofcode and has been downloaded over a million times in 2010.The commercial editions developed by Rapid7 are also based on Ruby.

• TheArachni Web Application Security Scanner is a free, modular,high-performance Ruby framework aimed towards helping penetration testersand administrators evaluate the security of modern web applications.

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