There's a sizable number of hackers who wouldn't be caught dead using 'that crafty old java thing' or 'what? perl?!'. There is also a sizable number of hackers

There's a sizable number of hackers who wouldn't be caught dead using 'that crafty old java thing' or 'what? perl?!'. There is also a sizable number of hackers who would never touch anything high level - C code or nothing! So obviously if you're hiring someone and your code base is all Ruby, you should at the very least mention it somewhere, even if you don't look for Ruby coders in particular. I don't think I need to point this out though, I'm not sure I've actually seen any job adverts that didn't mention programming language. Obviously most people get this.