From: Dido Sevilla Date: 2005-01-05T08:06:17+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby JOBS all around the world On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 05:59:26 +0900, MiG wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm a czech Ruby fan, now looking for a new job.. It's not possible to > find any ruby project here. Does anyone know about something like "Ruby > job announcement"? > Given that Ruby is nowhere near as mainstream as Java or Perl or even Python, it is very rare to see a project that specifically would use Ruby. Often, what I find myself doing is convincing potential clients of the merits of Ruby for a particular project, and well, most of them are smart enough to remember that they hired our team for our technical expertise, and that they shouldn't be meddling too much in technical matters like choice of implementation language. It would be better to be able dictate the language of an upcoming project yourself, rather than be committed to some language that is suboptimal for the task. Even Ruby is not the right language for doing everything. > I think more people are in the same situation - want to programm in Ruby > but aren't able to get a correspondent job. I think it's possible to > work over countries nowadays. Eight work hours & one company in one > bilding is the past. As are walls that go all the way to the ceiling. ;) Most jobs for programmers are on a per-project basis these days, and the only reason that companies that do IT services even still exist is to provide some framework. Most programmers would not have the ability to market themselves and their skills out of a cardboard box, and would have little contact with the brick and mortar businesses that might need their services.