From: tamouse mailing lists Date: 2013-01-09T12:37:09+09:00 Subject: Re: Pure Ruby Jobs On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 9:35 PM, tamouse mailing lists wrote: > On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Brandon Weaver wrote: >> One thing has been bugging me lately. I've been looking around for jobs in >> Ruby and I always find Rails within minutes, but pure Ruby or Raw Ruby are >> never really mentioned. I just find it odd that Rails completely dominates >> the Ruby market when quite frankly Ruby itself is an excellent language for >> administration on its own. I can understand it falling under "a scripting >> language" in most markets like Python or Perl, but given its strengths why >> doesn't it stand more on its own outside of large scale DSLs? > > I think it's basically that Rails is the 800-pound gorilla in the Ruby > world, i.e., it's Ruby's killer app. Also, more people are willing to > hire out for Rails developers, because they know they need a web site, > but they aren't developers. Taking out the whole web site arena, Ruby > does enjoy some traction, but generally speaking it's people writing > their own stuff in Ruby. > > Searching specifically for Ruby jobs that aren't Rails is going to be > tough, as you've found. Not that they don't exist, they're just the > needles in a whole lot of awfully big haystacks. > > If you don't want to write Rails apps, a fair enough thing, then I > suggest stop looking for shops that do NOT mention specific languages; > you're likely to get more traction by looking for places that want > software development support in general. One place I did a fair bit of > this was writing the analytics software for a research team (pre-ruby, > but still pretty awesome). They did not care what I wrote in, as long > as it gave the correct answers and ran in the space and time provided. > Just an example of something. Crikey. I need someone to proof-read my email responses.... Make that *START* looking for shops that do *NOT* mention specific languages.