This is a theme I'm hearing from a number of directions these days: namely, that Rails has (deservedly) attracted a lot of attention for web development, and tempted a lot of people from the PHP and Java camps into doing Ruby, but hasn't produced nearly as large a crop of expert Ruby developers as one might hope.
The basic fact is that a year or two of Rails development experience doesn't make you a good architect, systems programmer, or database administrator. Good back-end engineers are much rarer, and should command a premium, if only because such knowledge really does only come from years of hard-earned experience.
The basic fact is that a year or two of Rails development experience doesn't make you a good architect, systems programmer, or database administrator. Good back-end engineers are much rarer, and should command a premium, if only because such knowledge really does only come from years of hard-earned experience.