Where is Ruby now?

Question

Ruby on Rails

How promising is this technology by today's standards? And where do they traditionally grow / jump from it in which case?

Answer 1

To assess the demand, look at the vacancies on hh, moikrug, rubyjobs.dev and especially the @rubyjob telegram channel. The
demand is high, the salary is higher than the market average for the IT chamber.
Of the features of the market - half of the vacancies with remote opportunities. But even where an office is supposed to be, in fact, they are ready to offer remote work (but not for juniors). Contrary to idle opinions (that only legacy projects are supported), a lot of new projects are written in ruby.
I was especially surprised that various corporate parties began to write in ruby ​​(Rostelecom, Russian Railways, Gazprom, Sberbank, etc.).
If you write in ruby, then there is a good chance that you will also write in either golang or elixir. Because in large Ruby projects, it is common to move high-load parts into microservices in these languages. Therefore, if they jump from ruby, then as a rule it is either go or an elixir. But most often they are used together, and not instead.

Answer 2

On hh 50 vacancies with a salary of 190+ (roughly speaking, senior level) on rails in Moscow.
30 by Django
25 by Laravel.
So relatively popular, although I thought otherwise (like DevMan ).
You understood the principle of evaluation: look at job search sites.
Another obvious plus of RoR is, IMHO, the lowest level of entry before June due to the lack of fragmentation. In python, and even more so in php and js, this path will be much longer.