[pqdbr]

We've also been running Rails in production for 15+ years (since 2011) in two companies and it has been serving us greatly. Hiring is tough, but I definitely believe the stack makes up for it due to the productivity gains.

In late 2025 we decided to migrate one of them to Inertia. Public facing pages is already done, and we're 80% through migrating the logged in area (it's a huge app). We choose Vue.js.

It's amazing how powerful this stack is and how little you have to change in the backend.

[sodapopcan]

I'm surprised hiring is tough. The job market is such trash rn and I feel there are a lot of Rubyists, or ex-Rubists interested in returning to it, around. Maybe not? (Edit: spelling)

[shevy-java]

> Maybe not?

Because there are fewer and fewer ruby/rails people available.

It is the simplest explanation - and the one that makes the most sense, too.

[sodapopcan]

Well ya, I'm just saying I'm surprised considering the current job market. I moved on from Rails about 5 years ago now, but have 9 years experience under my belt and still keep up a bit with new things and play with them once in a while. And yet I've applied for several Rails positions in the past few years and always get an outright rejection.

[peter-boling]

I'm availabe! On rails for over 21 years since version zero. It's strange, but true, that we Rails-devs are hard to find. I apply for Rails-related roles and am competing with over 1,000 other resumes. I'm not sure how I fail to even get a screening call 99% of the time. Perhaps overqualified? Perhaps poor filtering? It is a very strange job market.