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I don't really care about "communities" when it comes to what software I use. I don't plan on hanging out with any of the "Ruby hipsters" any time soon and I'm not the type of person who barges into random IRC channels saying "someone fix my code lol."
IMO Ruby is a good language for ex-Perl users since it has good string handling and pattern matching compared to python and it doesn't have annoyances like FIOC. I haven't done anything with Rails so I can't say anything about that, but plain old Ruby's been a good Perl replacement in the few years I've been using it.