Finding Relationships Between Ruby’s Top Packages and Their Dependencies

Re:Finding Relationships Between Ruby’s Top Packages and The... by Lio on Thursday October 20, 2022 @02:55PM (#33279060)

I still see a lot of Rails contract work out there, roughly as many roles as ever before.

I've thought about switching to Elixir work but I just don't see the demand there yet. There's 2 orders of magnitude more Rails roles than there are Elixir jobs. That might change with time hopefully.

I can only speak for myself but I think Rails 7 is the most exciting release for years.

Hotwire, Stimulus, et al are finally a compelling reason to do frontend work in Rails again vs the last few years of using it mainly as an API for JavaScript SPA frameworks.

Ruby 3 finally provides a decent solution for async IO (with fully parallel ractors a work in progress).

Tooling is also much improved over a few years ago with Sorbet and Treesitter AST based stuff.

Rails might be boring but boring gets the job done.

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Re:Finding Relationships Between Ruby’s Top Packages and The... by vlz on Friday October 21, 2022 @01:17AM (#33284772)

Can only agree. Rails 7 with Hotwire, Turbo, Stimulus is very much a different experience than earlier versions. The fact that Rails is still evolving and changing in such big strides makes me think that it could stay relevant longer than people might think.

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