Rails is Ruby's "Killer App"

Forget the hype over Rails -- not important. Forget the anti-hype too -- irrelevant. Instead, just look at this graph from Alexa.com. See any correlation? Rails is a killer app, regardless of hype or anti-hype. As soon as Rails appeared on the scene, Ruby has experienced a 200% increase in web traffic over three months.

Personally, I think this is great. Ruby is a pleasure to program in, and provides a good alternative to other dynamic languages, and sometimes even the more-mainstream languages. Any growth in Ruby's adoption will drive innovation and open up Ruby for mainstream acceptance. Congrats to David Heinemeier Hansson for his great work on Ruby on Rails, and his successful evangelism of both Rails and Ruby.