Is Ruby On Rails Losing Steam?

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @04:06AM from the only-among-left-handed-geriatric-haberdashers dept.

itwbennett writes: In a post last week, Quartz ranked the most valuable programming skills, based on job listing data from Burning Glass and the Brookings Institution. Ruby on Rails came out on top, with an average salary of $109,460. And that may have been true in the first quarter of 2013 when the data was collected, but "before you run out and buy Ruby on Rails for Dummies, you might want to consider some other data which indicate that Rails (and Ruby) usage is not trending upwards," writes Phil Johnson. He looked at recent trends in the usage of Ruby (as a proxy for Rails usage) across MS Gooroo, the TIOBE index, the PYPL index, Redmonk's language rankings, and GitHut and found that "demand by U.S. employers for engineers with Rails skills has been on the decline, at least for the last year."

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Re: Everyone hates Ruby by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-26 04:40 · Score: 5, Informative

Why is the parent modded down?
It's a very accurate description of real world Ruby on Rails apps.
Many adopters have been badly burned by this software, and the people who pushed it.
Failed projects, slow and broken apps, and fleeing developers are the hallmarks of Ruby on Rails.
It's much worse than Java was in the early 2000s, or C++ in the 1990s, or C and COBOL before that.
Ruby on Rails sounds great, until you try to use an app written in it, or worse, until you have to deal with a Rubyist. Then everything tends to go to hell.