--- title: Ruby Is the Best Language for Building AI Apps | daily.dev description: A code-first argument for Ruby as the best language for building AI applications in 2026. The core claim is that modern AI development is mostly web... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ruby-is-the-best-language-for-building-ai-apps-5tjezlhah twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Ruby Is the Best Language for Building AI Apps | daily.dev og:description: A code-first argument for Ruby as the best language for building AI applications in 2026. The core claim is that modern AI development is mostly web... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ruby-is-the-best-language-for-building-ai-apps-5tjezlhah og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/5tjEzlHaH.png og:image:alt: Ruby Is the Best Language for Building AI Apps og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Ruby Is the Best Language for Building AI Apps **[RUBYLAND](https://daily.dev/sources/rubyla)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A code-first argument for Ruby as the best language for building AI applications in 2026. The core claim is that modern AI development is mostly web engineering around HTTP API calls to LLMs, not model training — making Python's ML ecosystem largely irrelevant. The post compares Ruby's RubyLLM library against Python's LangChain and JavaScript's AI SDK across simple chat, token tracking, and agent creation, arguing Ruby wins on API elegance and low cognitive overhead. Rails is presented as providing auth, billing, background jobs, streaming UI, and persistence out of the box. The post also addresses scalability concerns, pointing to Ruby's Async/Fiber model as well-suited for network-bound LLM workloads, and cites adoption metrics and testimonials from teams that migrated from Python. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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