What does Ruby have that Python doesn't?
gtani: Well, they're both foundational languages, pretty much, not in the sense of this blog, i.e. most instructional languagehttp://mvanier.livejournal.com/998.htmlbut in the sense of can you put up a significant web app in 2 or 3 days, do lots of companies use it (along with C, java, C#, javascript).r vs. p can't be reduced to 15 bullet points, but one of the best things i remember is Alex Martelli in 2003, so he was talking about ruby 1.6 and python 2.3, i believe, but still validhttp://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/28422d70...and here's the last thread from May.http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=157269There's the other killer apps: Python: twisted, zope, SQLalchemy, mercurial.   Ruby: rake, capistrano, rspec, adhearsion, merb, puppet, metasploit.  I'm sure python has a bunch more, but i've been living in rails-land.