15 Feb 2019
We checked in with some of our Ruby on Rails and Frontend Development Interns from the last few years. See what they're up to now, and hear their advice for others new to the tech industry!
29 Nov 2018
Are you thinking about using D3.js to build charts? Before starting, you may want to be certain that it is the right tool for the job by considering the pros and cons of this powerful JavaScript library.
5 Oct 2018
You need to hire Rails developers. You post a job and...crickets. Where are all the applicants? Here are five ways to expand your developer recruitment pool.
28 Sep 2018
What qualities are most important in a senior-level web developer? Skill? Patience? Communication? We talked with tech leaders who manage and hire senior developers to find out.
10 Sep 2018
Are you interviewing Ruby on Rails development companies for your application? Here are six important questions to ask them in the interview process.
5 Sep 2018
How should you estimate smaller tickets? Here are a few tips and tricks for estimating small tasks with better accuracy.
16 Jul 2018
What is being a developer all about? Efficiency is a big factor in success. Here are some simple efficiency tips from one of our Ruby on Rails interns.
10 Jul 2018
A Ruby on Rails development agency may seem like the most expensive development resource to choose for your project. What are the advantages to working with an agency?
21 Jun 2018
You’ve read it. I’ve read it. We’ve all read it somewhere. On a good day, Rails is a dying language, and on a bad day it’s already dead. But is that really the case? And what's that statement even based on? This article details an interesting bit of research done by Yoel Blum on the demand for Ruby on Rails developers. And if you think Rails developers aren’t in demand, you might be surprised by the findings.
He had previously written about the decline in popularity of Rails, and mentioned Laravel, Django, and Express.JS as comparably popular frameworks. This previous piece was based on StackOverflow questions asked over time – which is not necessarily the best measure of a framework’s popularity.
Yoel researched the number of job openings posted on LinkedIn for various frameworks. Job postings are a seemingly fair measurement of demand for a certain skill set. So how in demand were Ruby on Rails developers?
In the United States, Rails was the second most mentioned framework in job descriptions behind .NET, with 8,710 mentions (For comparison, Asp.NET has 12,203). When you narrow the search down to Silicon Valley, Rails actually comes in ahead of both .NET and Django with over 1,000 job postings at the time of article publication.
Is this data 100% bulletproof in showing the popularity of Rails? Not exactly. One thing I’ve noticed while looking at developer job descriptions is that often more than one framework is mentioned, written like this: Web application development experience in Ruby on Rails or other modern MVC framework (Spring, Backbone.js, etc...). This means there may be some overlap in the data that would take some more digging to uncover.
But these numbers are certainly a promising look at the current state of Ruby on Rails in the broader ecosystem of application development. And it’s a helpful response to the next person that asks you why you’re still using Ruby on Rails. :)
For the rest of Yoel's data findings and conclusions, you can read the full article on Medium.
19 Jun 2018
We sat down with the CTO of Jiffy, a home maintenance app built with Ruby on Rails, to discuss his thoughts on how the framework has helped their app grow and thrive.
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