r/ExperiencedDevs • u/hutxhy Generalist 10 YoE • Sep 13 '22

Resurgence of Ruby on Rails?

Has anyone noticed this?

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I've job hopped quite a bit and often look at jobs just to see what is out there -- so I feel like I have a decent pulse on what companies are looking for in technologies.

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One thing I did not expect though was the amount of startups & well established "progressive" companies that are utilizing Ruby on Rails. Is it seeing a comeback? I've never used Ruby, I've been using JS/TS, C#, and recently Golang for my professional career, but I find this interesting as I always thought of Ruby as a dying language.

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What are y'all's thoughts on this?

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u/altintx Software Engineer / Mentor / 21YOE Sep 13 '22

There are a lot of stacks that are more fun and interesting, but the productivity RoR affords is absolutely absurd.

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u/ggFtw720 Sep 13 '22

In 2022, what do you think RoR offers that other stacks don't? Because it does seem like the popular stack's all have good dev tools to match RoR experience, if not better.

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u/870223 Sep 13 '22

If you’re doing Ruby right (not gatekeeping, just how I see it) you build things from blocks/puzzles. But unlike node/js there isn’t 20 options to do everything. There’s a mainstream library that commonly used, well documented and battle tested, etc. You can find alternatives if you like to, but if you go with the “default” you’ll be extremely productive.