That's not really the case, it just seems that way because of your local environment.
Of the 1.3 million software developer jobs in the US maybe a few percent at most are in Ruby, and most of those are concentrated in a handful of locations.
PHP and C# usage is much higher and distributed across the US.
Looking to figure out what the best hackers in the world think are good tools to use and then start using those. (Since I have to most-likely learn new tools anyway).
Reading HN, it seems people work with Rails, Python (Django/Pylons/WebPy/?) and Node.js
Basically wanted the experience of people who built something more than toy projects minus the flame war :-)
I spent the last 2 months building an app on rails and I've really enjoyed it. The available plugins and docs are great. With a bit more of a python background, I've really enjoyed Ruby. The ruby way of doing things seems more intuitive to me now, and I struggle a little bit when programming in python (not much, but I feel pythons stricter syntax and grammar to be a little bit of friction)
Someone else here compared ruby to python. They said ruby is quicker and smoother for UI programming, python is faster and better developed for computation. I think that answer is dead on.
Of the 1.3 million software developer jobs in the US maybe a few percent at most are in Ruby, and most of those are concentrated in a handful of locations.
PHP and C# usage is much higher and distributed across the US.