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<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>Success Stories</title> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> <meta itemprop="image" content="https://www.ruby-lang.org/images/header-ruby-logo@2x.png"> <meta name="description" content=""> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/stylesheets/normalize.css"> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/stylesheets/main.css"> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/stylesheets/pygments.css"> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/stylesheets/mobile.css"> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/stylesheets/print.css"> <link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Noto+Sans:400,700,400italic,700italic&subset=latin,cyrillic,greek,vietnamese' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'> <link rel="canonical" href="https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/success-stories/"> <link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" href="/favicon.ico"> <link href="/en/feeds/news.rss" rel="alternate" title="Recent News (RSS)" type="application/rss+xml"> <script type="text/javascript" src="/javascripts/jquery.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="/javascripts/page.js"></script> </head> <body> <div id="header"> <div id="header_content" class="container"> <a href="/en/"> <h1>Ruby</h1> <h2>A Programmer's Best Friend</h2> </a> <div class="site-links"> <a href="/en/" class="home">Home</a> <a href="/en/downloads/">Downloads</a> <a href="/en/documentation/">Documentation</a> <a href="/en/libraries/">Libraries</a> <a href="/en/community/">Community</a> <a href="/en/news/">News</a> <a href="/en/security/">Security</a> <a href="/en/about/">About Ruby</a> <a href="#" class="menu selected">Menu</a> </div> <div id="search-box"> <form id="search-form" action="https://www.google.com/cse"> <table class="fieldset"> <tr> <td> <input class="field" type="text" name="q" size="31" style="background: white url(//www.google.com/coop/intl/en/images/google_custom_search_watermark.gif) left no-repeat" onfocus="this.style.background='white'" onblur="if (/^\s*$/.test(this.value)) this.style.background='white url(//www.google.com/coop/intl/en/images/google_custom_search_watermark.gif) left no-repeat'"/> </td> <td> <input type="hidden" name="cx" value="013598269713424429640:g5orptiw95w" /> <input type="hidden" name="ie" value="UTF-8" /> <input class="button" type="submit" name="sa" value="Search" /> </td> </tr> </table> </form> </div> </div> </div> <div id="page"> <div id="main-wrapper" class="container"> <div id="main"> <div id="content-wrapper"> <h1>Success Stories</h1> <div id="content"> <p class="summary">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.</p> <h4>Simulations</h4> <ul> <li> <p><a href="http://www.larc.nasa.gov/">NASA Langley Research Center</a> uses Ruby to conduct simulations.</p> </li> <li> <p>A research group in <a href="http://www.motorola.com">Motorola</a> uses Ruby to script a simulator, both to generate scenarios and to post process the data.</p> </li> </ul> <h4>3D Modeling</h4> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.sketchup.com/">Google SketchUp</a> is a 3D modeling application that uses Ruby for its macro scripting API.</li> </ul> <h4>Business</h4> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.uhn.ca/TorontoRehab">Toronto Rehab</a> uses a RubyWebDialogs-based app to manage and track on-call and on-site support for the IT help desk and IT operations teams.</li> </ul> <h4>Robotics</h4> <ul> <li>At MORPHA project, Ruby was used to implement the reactive control part for the Siemens service robot.</li> </ul> <h4>Telephony</h4> <ul> <li>Ruby is being used within Lucent on a 3G wireless telephony product.</li> </ul> <h4>System Administration</h4> <ul> <li>Ruby was used to write the central data collection portion of <a href="http://www.level3.com/">Level 3 Communications</a> Unix Capacity and Planning system that gathers performance statistics from over 1700 Unix (Solaris and Linux) servers scattered around the globe.</li> </ul> <h4>Web Applications</h4> <ul> <li> <p><a href="https://www.basecamp.com">Basecamp</a>, a web-based project management application, is programmed entirely in Ruby.</p> </li> <li> <p><a href="http://www.alistapart.com">A List Apart</a>, 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.</p> </li> </ul> <h4>Security</h4> <ul> <li> <p>The <a href="http://www.metasploit.com">Metasploit Framework</a>, a community open source project managed by <a href="http://www.rapid7.com">Rapid7</a>, is a free penetration testing platform that helps IT professionals assess the security of their networks and applications. The Metasploit Project consists of over 700,000 lines of code and has been downloaded over a million times in 2010. The commercial editions developed by Rapid7 are also based on Ruby.</p> </li> <li> <p>The <a href="http://www.arachni-scanner.com/">Arachni Web Application Security Scanner</a> is a free, modular, high-performance Ruby framework aimed towards helping penetration testers and administrators evaluate the security of modern web applications.</p> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <hr class="hidden-modern" /> <div id="sidebar-wrapper"> <div id="sidebar"> <div class="navigation"> <h3><strong>Get Started</strong>, it's easy!</h3> <ul class="menu"> <li><a href="https://try.ruby-lang.org/">Try Ruby! 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