Ruby: Widely Distributed?

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Published on 2010-05-17T09:44:59Z Indexed on 2010/05/17 9:52 UTC
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While I know it's not part of the Posix standard, but how widely distributed is Ruby on Linux, Unix and other *nix's?

I ask because I loathe sh and use Ruby whenever I can on Ubuntu and OSX, but I don't want to get too locked in to 'strange' solutions.

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