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As I mentioned in my RailsConf talk, we've been using Ruby at ThoughtWorks clients for at least 3 years, way before the Rails phenomenon hit. A good example I can share with you comes from one of our projects at an investment bank client in Sydney where we are using Ruby to:

• generate Selenium tests using a DSL wrapped around RubySelenium
• do statistical analysis of data in our legacy database
• spike out rules (typically regex) to cope with dodgy data in certain fields
• analyse logs for performance data and create summaries
• wrap svn logs to tell us who did what, when

So, even in circumstances where you're stuck with Java or .NET, there are still cases where you might benefit by using Ruby for its powerful scripting capabilities.