Where are the ruby jobs?

May 15, 2008 | 1 Minute Read
This post was originally posted on my old blog.

In my current job I get in touch with a lot of heavy-weight (if not obese!) Java projects.

Not being overly happy with those kind of projects (along with them comes usually legacy and overhead of all kinds, out-dated technology ... and little fun), I am wondering if there are any alternatives in enterprise application development.

In my current naive view, Ruby could be such an alternative. Ruby On Rails as a prototype of lightweight web development appears fresh and sexy. It is still a playground for alpha-geeks, but ready for the enterprise at the same time.
Not beeing mainstream means that it can attract new and innovative but not dead-critical projects. Where you can achieve a lot with little overhead... thats where the fun lies!

According to indeed.com there should be a real demand for Ruby programmers.


Compared to Java and .NET:


But this trend seems not to be reflected here in Switzerland:

Search for 'ruby' yields 3 hits on monster.ch.

The same search on hays.ch yields 5 hits, but none of them in Switzerland.

Searches for 'rails', 'groovy' or 'seam' have less or even no hits...

It seems I have to keep looking ...