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According to Obie, it is due to the *extraordinary demand* for Ruby and RoR developers, that major IT job sites are pretty much devoid of ads for Ruby or RoR developers.

Uh, no Obie. The hard, cold reality is that Ruby is a niche language. The demand for Ruby skills is nowhere near what the Ruby hype would suggest. And every analysis I've seen so far indicates that compensation for the comparatively tiny number of developers who are able to find paying Ruby work is significantly below that for mainstream languages.

If someone is looking for joy or happiness or fulfillment or a community or the like, I hear Ruby gives you that in spades. (I hear that over and over again, ad nauseum, in fact.) But if someone is looking for a career in software development, they would be well-advised to invest their efforts in a language other than Ruby. There are many languages that offer far more opportunity.

What?! You mean because there is no way to quantify "extraordinary demand" he is wrong? That was sarcastic, of course. It is a niche.

1. Write a bunch of books about Ruby and Rails
2. Claim that RoR devs make six figures and that there was an enormous demand for them.
3. Profit.

Sounds like a better profit model than the underpants gnomes.