[Rails] Re: The Future OF RUBY and RUBY ON RAILS

2010-08-03 Thread Phoenix Rising
Dave gets +1 awesome on the missing the java boat point. Same deal here. Ruby is a great language. Rails is a great framework. There's no rule that says that this technology CAN'T go away, but the trend with Ruby/Rails has been explosive growth for the last five years or so. I've personally

[Rails] Re: The Future OF RUBY and RUBY ON RAILS

2010-08-02 Thread Robert Walker
Musdev Musdev wrote: DO you guys see Ruby and Ruby on Rails sticking around for a while? and do you see an increase in demand for ruby/ruby on rails developers? This question comes up a lot, and speaking for myself I get sort of tired of answering it. Besides, it's a pointless question that

Re: [Rails] Re: The Future OF RUBY and RUBY ON RAILS

2010-08-02 Thread David Kahn
I guess what bothers me a bit about this question is it sounds like it is coming from a place of hedging on a technology - like should I learn this just because I want to be employable in the future --- or maybe I should pick something else. I understand that is not an unreasonable question but is