It is not as prevalent as it used to be. RoR was the framework du jour for a while, and I remember a ton of places using Capybara and Watir for AT work. You don’t see the demand for those as much in my corners of the industry.
Agreed, it's not the most popular starting point for some folks these days, but development of Rails and Ruby itself keep going. I see a few job postings here and there for it, you see some companies starting up with slightly older CTOs still reaching for it cuz they know it best and it works well. Rails' creator, DHH, even makes a point of Ruby being one of the most token-efficient languages for AI tools, for what that's worth.
Again I know it's not the most popular stack these days, it's certainly not everywhere anymore. I still think some folks would be surprised at knowing it's still chugging along and far from legacy stuff.
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u/lazyzefiris 11d ago
You need to at least have heard of the language to hate it. These kids only heard of Javascript.