JavaScript is a must know if you want to do web work. It's as necessary as HTML. It's the only language browsers actually natively run. Ruby on Rails is sort of the basis for most any other modern MVC web framework. That is to say it inspired nearly every other web MVC framework, in most other languages. If you can use Rails you'll be able to use most anything else. Prior to Rails most web apps had proprietary framew…
From a substitutes perspectives... If you look at the absolute numbers, Ruby jobs are fewer, while (its primary competitor) Python jobs are higher (Python over Ruby by 2:1 according to both GlassDoor and Indeed). About the same ratio also seems to apply for job postings. So why so many Ruby bootcamps? Maybe it's a relative thing, but I don't have estimates of the number of Ruby bootcamps versus Python bootcamps. But…
if you want to interview with us you better know at least a little bit about the foundations of CS.
you will not know jack, coming out of a 12 week bootcamp with no prior formal education.
on the ruby front, you are confronted with web hipsters who subscribe to this paradigm that formal training is a hindrance to "getting shit done" and "being pragmatic". way easier to roll with those guys. way easier.
thats the reason they teach you ruby instead of python.
- I'm not saying that the ruby crowd gets nothing done. they do. just a different mindset.