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title: "Comment by Ákos Kőműves on \"Discovering Ruby on Rails: is it dead or alive?\" | Hashnode"
description: "Ruby is great! As someone who worked with JavaScript/Java mostly I appreciate that there are some good defaults and stuff just works - until it doesn't 😈"
url: "https://hashnode.com/posts/discovering-ruby-on-rails-is-it-dead-or-alive/62ec0fd4f583cc2636e540a4/comment/62ed1f52e3a3793580dfd782"
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[Discussion](https://hashnode.com/posts/discovering-ruby-on-rails-is-it-dead-or-alive/62ec0fd4f583cc2636e540a4)

Comment [Discovering Ruby on Rails: is it dead or alive?](https://hashnode.com/posts/discovering-ruby-on-rails-is-it-dead-or-alive/62ec0fd4f583cc2636e540a4)

[Ákos Kőműves](https://hashnode.com/@akoskm)

[Aug 5, 2022](https://hashnode.com/posts/discovering-ruby-on-rails-is-it-dead-or-alive/62ec0fd4f583cc2636e540a4/comment/62ed1f52e3a3793580dfd782)

Ruby is great! As someone who worked with JavaScript/Java mostly I appreciate that there are some good defaults and stuff just works - until it doesn't 😈

[Bogdan N.](https://hashnode.com/@bog)

[Aug 5, 2022](https://hashnode.com/posts/discovering-ruby-on-rails-is-it-dead-or-alive/62ec0fd4f583cc2636e540a4/comment/62ed1f52e3a3793580dfd782#reply-62ed26ef1e1353355ad310c8)

Ahaha Yeah I think it's great!  
I just wish they improved DX a bit so new devs can jump straight in

[Ákos Kőműves](https://hashnode.com/@akoskm)

[Aug 5, 2022](https://hashnode.com/posts/discovering-ruby-on-rails-is-it-dead-or-alive/62ec0fd4f583cc2636e540a4/comment/62ed1f52e3a3793580dfd782#reply-62ed3eb0e3a3793580dfde1b)

Yeah, they could definitely work on that. I work for companies where Ruby engineers are a constant problem - although there are more of them in the US than in the EU (in my experience)