Ruby only hangs with kids cooler than you

I created this blog to share my thoughts on where I thought the Ruby Market was, where I thought it was going and where I believed it was going astray.  It fascinates me that a language as old as Perl can have so little regard for its own place in the programming world, as though looking too deep into its own soul would break the shared illusion that Ruby has over its community.  One of the places that I’ve been especially befuddled by is in its schizophrenic condemnation of and then sly come-hither advances towards people within Enterprise organizations.  

RailsConf 2010 Job Board

Every year the acolytes of Ruby on Rails collect in a single location to swap spellbooks and exchange favorite potion recipes on how best to use RoR to create web applications.  Its a great time to reconnect with community members and friends.  It is also the best place in the world to look for Rails developers for your team.  As with many conferences, RailsConf has a real simple solution to match up looking-to-hires with looking-to-quit-current-jobs; a wall of paper they call a Job Board.  It works really well for anyone who made it into the conference.  But what about the Rails Community as a whole, shouldn’t they be included in the match-making fun?

I think so, so I took pictures [here] and transcribed to listings in this inaugural Business of Ruby (BoR) blog post. You can see the full spreadsheet here