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by bdcravens 3449 days ago
According to first link in those search results, ColdFusion is as popular as Ruby. I think you have to factor in the number of PHP "applications" where there's little to no development needed. There's a tremendous number of websites thrown up on $5 hosting with Wordpress and a $20 theme.

> After learning ruby/rails it will be difficult to find work and understand basic database constructs.

Doesn't have to be that way, but I'd posit that developers should learn to build an application using pure SQL before they learn an ORM.