I am interested in learning Ruby/RoR, but it seems to have lost the popularity it had a few short years ago, and from what I've read, few webhosts support it. Is it on its way out?
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Still seems to be growing in the U.S., it's just not as hyped as it was. See job stats from indeed
Michael Mullany
2010-10-22 15:02:01
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I wouldn't say it's on its way out, it just lost some of the hype--which isn't a bad thing.
I don't think there has ever been a ridiculous amount of hosting support; but there are a few, there's a list of hosts that provide rails support at http://www.rubyonrailswebhost.com/
jordanstephens
2010-10-22 15:02:12
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No.
I find more and more nice little startups that are using it (my favorite recent finds: toggl.com and zencoder.com). There are also many good web hosts, but in my experience the best of them is heroku.com.
If you're interested in learning it, find a local user group. There's always people there willing to share their interest.
phloopy
2010-10-22 15:16:20
That was the case I was hearing locally abou 1.5 - 2 years ago. I don't think many of those start-ups still exist (though I don't think RoR had anything to do with that though their failure would take some RoR players off the market). How is it where you are? Did they do better?
FrustratedWithFormsDesigner
2010-10-22 15:30:17
RoR is still hot but it is not suitable for any type of start-up. It is known for RoR world that people usually say "We can do everything with RoR, why using Java". You should search for "programmers" that will use RoR not the RoR developers!
xpepermint
2010-10-26 09:12:46