Ruby (and certainly Rails) is still very much in-demand, and I'd say is still "trending" in terms of development languages. Granted, Ruby (Rails) tends to get l

Ruby (and certainly Rails) is still very much in-demand, and I'd say is still "trending" in terms of development languages. Granted, Ruby (Rails) tends to get lost in the sauce with the continual uprising of new languages and frameworks catered towards web development. However, I think that Ruby's strong community, even more-so with the Rails community, is what would make it such a good language to learn for the job market. Aside from Rails, I think that Ruby will see even more of a surge in popularity with the recent progress in RubyMotion (they changed their pricing plans, and the platform is more easily available to the average developer now). I'm only now dipping into RubyMotion, but it's wonderful if you want to develop on the iOS or OSX platforms without getting heavily involved in learning Objective-C. Anyways, I'm getting off-topic. Point is, I think Ruby is a very good choice. Being that Rails is the most popular framework in Ruby, Rails would be a wise choice to become familiar with too.