From: Brian Ehmann <behmannlist@...>
Date: 2007-03-27T23:20:14+09:00
Subject: Re: On Enterprise Ruby


On Mar 27, 2007, at 8:45 AM, Richard Conroy wrote:

> 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.
>

Agreed, Ruby has ruined my Sr. Java Engineer job.  I can't tell you how
many times I have thought, "Damn, this would look/work so much better if
I could use Ruby."