I gave a talk tonight to Bootstrap Austin’s web SIG on Second Life. I brought the ad agency where I work into Second Life and am advising clients on the best way to use it. It was a small, but interested group of folks…less than ten. With one exception, we were all programmers or former programmers.
After we exhausted talking about Second Life, the talk turned to Ruby. I was astounded by the fact that everyone was either working in Ruby, learning Ruby, or, with the exception of the one non-programmer, involved in discussing whether or not to use Ruby. All were talking about using Rails for web development.
A consensus emerged. Professional programmers, those who program for a living, love Agile Development with Rails. Those that are learning, but who haven’t programmed professionally for a few years (almost a decade for me), get more out of Ruby for Rails.