Thanks for clarifying. But that seems a bit unfair and arbitrary. Rails definitely boosted its popularity but Ruby itself is quite potent without it. Stripe has its systems written in Ruby without using Rails, for example.

If we apply the same standards for Python, shouldn't we track its popularity by when NumPy(Numeric) came into being? (1995)

This is supremely pedantic though, and I don't really care about arguing it here, so :shrugs: