[superswordfish]

You can keep telling yourself that, but actually most places asking for only five years' Ruby experience would kill for somebody with the same experience in a similar language. Rails really isn't that hard to learn, especially if you're taking a job that involves maintaining/enhancing an existing project. You would be hired as a senior. Well, unless you actually can't grok Ruby after knowing Python, which would be a sad state of affairs.

[zeemonkee3]

> most places asking for only five years' Ruby experience would kill for somebody with the same experience in a similar language

I've yet to see any evidence that is the case (not necessarily Ruby, but in general)