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Man, my anecdotal evidence is completely opposite, and I've been comparing notes with (some good) recruiters and other contacts around town for the last couple of years. Rails hit an inflection point in that period where even enterprises are comfortable with it.

In DFW, traditionally a dense forest of Enterprisey .NET and J2EE projects, I've seen a LOT of new Rails gigs pop up. A number of startups (growing in this area), but also big companies like Raytheon. I had a long conversation with an Adobe recruiter last year about their Rails initiative, and unless someone can point me towards different information, is it not the case that most web startups default question now is -- "is there a good reason NOT to do this in Rails?"

Rails and Ruby right now feel like Java circa the early 00s or thereabouts, where JVM performance concerns/FUD had clearly been dealt with and pretty much everyone was on board.

My hunch is we may look back on the last couple of years as being a similar tipping point for Ruby/Rails.