[cutler]

Maybe a more relevant question is whether Rails is worth learning if you're looking for a job. Searching Indeed.com's API by title, which removes duplicates, there are currently 133 Rails jobs in the USA compared with 763 PHP (excl. WP, Drupal etc.) and 467 Node.js. In the UK there are 104 Rails jobs compared with 1013 PHP (excl. WP, Drupal etc.) and 230 Node.js. However, if you deleve deeper it turns out that half of the Rails jobs are in London. Outside the capital there are 22 PHP jobs to every Rails job (35 including WP, Drupal etc.) and 3 Node.js jobs to every Rails job so it would appear that unless you have a particular preference for the Ruby language Rails is not a good bet in today's job market.

[appleiigs]

So you are saying that PHP is worth learning in 2017? I think it goes beyond job posting counts.

[cutler]

Have you looked at Laravel recently? With Vue.js integrated into the framework and adopting the best bits of Rails I'd say it's looking in better shape than Rails right now.

[hashmal]

I don't think indeed.com is representative of the market, many rails jobs aren't even online.

Besides, if for 133 rails jobs and 763 PHP jobs there are 60 and 1500 rails and PHP candidates (respectively,) you're clearly better off choosing rails.

[cutler]

That's not very scientific until you can establish that Rails jobs are more likely to be posted offline than PHP jobs. I don't see any evidence for this.

[matthewking]

I find for the jobs market usually Java and C# dominate.