Let's be honest, if it weren't for Rails Ruby would be forgotten nowadays.
Right now Ruby is a language used to maintain legacy Rails systems.
The majority of the world's Ruby programmers are in Japan, where it's used for a whole lot more than building Rails apps. So Ruby isn't going anywhere, although it may become a curiosity in the West over time.
The majority of the world's Ruby programmers are in Japan, where it's used for a whole lot more than building Rails apps. So Ruby isn't going anywhere, although it may become a curiosity in the West over time.