From: Lloyd Linklater Date: 2007-08-23T03:40:03+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby off the Rails celldee wrote: > I did a quick search on jobserve.com for 'ruby'. I got 60 hits, most > of which were unsurprisingly asking for RoR developers. I did another > search for 'perl' and got 958 hits. While I am very pleased that RoR > is being more widely adopted, it would seem that there is little or no > demand for Ruby developers outside of rails. > > Are there a growing number of non-Rails Ruby jobs that I'm not > spotting? Or are there really very few organisations that are willing > to adopt Ruby as a general purpose scripting language? Well, there are other things to consider. Even though the number of PHP to ruby jobs is about 15:1 in this case, that is not really the end of the story. If there are more than 15 PHP programmers to every ruby one, then there are actually MORE jobs. Also, ruby is not yet in the mainstream but it muddling its way there. Such things take time to start but can snowball quickly, as happened with Java. Managers decide which language to use and who to hire. They are typically ignorant of such things and need to have things waved in their face before they feel enough backbone forming that they can tell the big boys in the meetings that they want to use ruby. On the plus side, when the snowball does start, those that have been doing it in the pre-dawn times will have a major head start. :) -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.