From: Richard Conroy <richard.conroy@...>
Date: 2007-03-27T21:45:55+09:00
Subject: Re: On Enterprise Ruby

On 3/27/07, Dave Rose <bitdoger2@yahoo.com> wrote:
>  As soon as i see a want-ad in Cleveland,Ohio for a rails or ruby
> programmer then
> and only then will i call ruby 'mainstream'ed enough for even becoming
> R2EE.
> The biggest thing that is working against ruby now in corporate american
> is the
> not invented here syndrome..my boss still thinks that i'm only one of
> three
> people in the US that knows Ruby

Yeah, here in Ireland, the Team Lead asked if Ruby is so big, why aren't
we seeing it on job applications (for a Snr Java job). As if this implied
some universal truth. There was lots of bottom shelf answers I could
have used (it was a stupid comment) but what I said was:
"They are all gone to Google or contracting"

Having any significant experience with Ruby will change your perspective
on programming. 'Any old Java job' will cease to have any meaningful
attraction in a technical sense.