# What you think about Ruby Jobs?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-you-think-about-ruby-jobs/154501>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [November 30, 2008, 9:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-you-think-about-ruby-jobs/154501 "2008-11-30T21:04:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Edson\_L](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/57b2e6/32.png) [@Edson\_L](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Edson_L)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 9:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-you-think-about-ruby-jobs/154501/1 "2008-11-30T21:04:15Z")

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Hello everyone, I’m from Brazil, and I’m looking forward to lean a new  
language to work with.

Ruby is my choice! 😃

What is the salary average for Ruby programmers? (rookie, normal,  
expert)  
Ho pays the best salary? (country)  
I plan to work outside Brazil… Which country is adopting best the Ruby  
technology?

Here in Brazil, the things is a little slow… The servers are adopting  
the  
language on this year, but it still slow… The business on São Paulo  
are  
still on Java, Delphi, VB and so on… (desktop environment) and ASP,  
PHP,  
Flex, Java (web environment).

I have already good experience on Delphi (6 years) and PHP (4 years).

–  
Edson L.

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**Author:** ![Edson\_L](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/57b2e6/32.png) [@Edson\_L](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Edson_L)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 4:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-you-think-about-ruby-jobs/154501/2 "2008-12-02T16:11:58Z")

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No one?

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**Author:** ![Edson\_L](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/57b2e6/32.png) [@Edson\_L](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Edson_L)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 7:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-you-think-about-ruby-jobs/154501/3 "2008-12-02T19:05:20Z")

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Edson L. wrote:

> No one?

Are you asking this from a Ruby on Rails perspective or a purely Ruby  
perspective? At work I use Ruby on Rails which means that I must know at  
least a little Ruby, but my skills could be better when it comes to  
Ruby. Since you mentioned PHP, Flex, etc., I assume you are asking about  
web development jobs? If that is the case then Ruby on Rails is up and  
coming and has a lot of people talking. If you become a good Rails  
programmer then jobs should be plentiful and you should be able to find  
jobs in just about any country. As for pure ruby…I don’t know how  
plentiful jobs are, but I will say that to me Ruby seems like a very  
powerful language, one that I am very impressed with, but then again I  
do have a lot to learn about Ruby.

Not sure I answered your question but here is a website that will be  
more informative: [http://jobs.rubynow.com/](http://jobs.rubynow.com/)

Good luck,

-S

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**Author:** ![Edson\_L](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/57b2e6/32.png) [@Edson\_L](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Edson_L)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 12:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-you-think-about-ruby-jobs/154501/4 "2008-12-03T12:01:08Z")

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Thanks for the answers!

Well, the way i see here in Brazil, is that there are two types of  
bubbles.  
1º one on freelancers and standalone services (In here, RoR is getting  
better and better every day…) but the 2º, the companies, are not  
adopting  
this technology so well, and that is what really pays the salary…

Here in São Paulo, PHP still the dominant language.

Is there any information / graphics of the adoption or the growing of  
RoR on  
worldwide?  
Shandy N. and Keburgett, wich state or country are u from?