there is not a shortage of ruby engineers, nor of jobs to be filled for them. Also, rails is easy to pick up. It's continuously groomed and improved. Ruby itse

there is not a shortage of ruby engineers, nor of jobs to be filled for them. Also, rails is easy to pick up. It's continuously groomed and improved. Ruby itself is lends itself to expression. It's also a very well organized codebase. It's been around for 10 years. People have been saying it won't last, that it'll never gain traction, but that's nonsense. It's a tool out there that you can use, and I as well as many other people enjoy it. Nothing wrong with that. It's a choice, an opinion. And you can get a job working with it if you want. you don't HAVE to use it, if you don't want to. if you want to use java, go right ahead. I could never, and will never. But at the end of the day, i love the web, and I love ruby, and I'm grateful I get to do both at the same time, and if the OP wants to as well, they can. There is no reason to not learn rails if it's something your interested in and are considering it as a career possibility.