# RubyOnRails and number of projects

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyonrails-and-number-of-projects/183417>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 13, 2010, 2:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyonrails-and-number-of-projects/183417 "2010-02-13T14:07:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![sijo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@sijo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sijo)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 2:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyonrails-and-number-of-projects/183417/1 "2010-02-13T14:07:35Z")

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Hi  
This I am writing just of curiosity. I like ruby and rails very  
much. But when I watch number of rails projects in freelance sites like  
rentacoder or elance, it is found that the number of rails projects is  
very less compared to other technologies. So would like to know why this  
happens. Why people are some what reluctant to use Rails compared to  
java technologies or even php. Frankly asking what is the career growth  
in ROR if stick to that. What will be its future? In countries like  
India the number of rails job openings is very minimum. Why this even  
Rails is a great framework ?Please share your valuable thoughts

Thanks in advance  
Sijo

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**Author:** ![sijo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@sijo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sijo)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 5:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyonrails-and-number-of-projects/183417/2 "2010-02-13T17:54:08Z")

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Hi,

Hmmmmm. I also asked the same question…

But one thing, it takes some time for any technology to reach everyone.

Most of the projects developed are already developed in Java, .Net or  
any  
other technologies  
and they would be only for maintenance in the later stages.

It is waste of resources and money to begin the projects again from  
scratch  
and to train people to other technologies.

So… takes some time.

Learn many platforms.

All the Best.

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**Author:** ![sijo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@sijo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sijo)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 7:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyonrails-and-number-of-projects/183417/3 "2010-02-13T19:55:17Z")

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> India the number of rails job openings is very minimum. Why this even  
> Rails is a great framework ?Please share your valuable thoughts

I think lots of it has to do with the simple fact that Rails is newer  
than Java/PHP so the talent pool is simply less. While that equates  
to fewer jobs overall, it doesn’t necessarily mean that you’ll have  
problems finding Rails jobs as the ratio may be the same (I have no  
idea if that’s actually true).

The other component is that many ISP are reluctant to provide Rails  
support because it is a bit more complicated. That’s changing though  
with systems like Passenger. I liken it to the similar difference  
between MySQL support and PostgreSQL support. The pool-size is just  
different.

Beyond that though, you may well be looking in the wrong spot. Try  
[jobs.rubynow.com](http://jobs.rubynow.com) and [workingwithrails.com](http://workingwithrails.com) and some of the other ruby/  
rails focused job sites and see what is out there.

I track [jobs.rubynow.com](http://jobs.rubynow.com) in my RSS feeds and there are a at least  
several postings a day. I don’t always read them, and many are for  
full time employment, but some are for freelance as well.

-philip