Recently, lots of words have been written about Ruby on Rails and lots of programmers had adopted or thought about adopting it. As a result, this young programming language has reached the top 10 of most popular programming languages. On the picture below you can see that ruby is the language with most gain of popularity. This statistics has been done by “TIOBE Software BV”. It represents ratings that are based on the world-wide availability of skilled engineers, courses and third party vendors. Moreover Yahoo!, MSN, and of course Google are used to calculate the ratings.

Well, I think that this index is a good enough confirmation that Ruby is no more a “back-stage player”. Moreover, in my view, if someone has a touch with the comfort and easiness of web developing with the help of Ruby on Rails - he will seriously think about adopting it as a primary web dev tool/lang. I have programming skills and experience with Perl, Java, PHP, however neither of them has given me the comfort of rails. My expectations are that in one or two years ruby will be a first-stop about developing moderate web applications. It won’t shift Java or PHP because they have long and hard roots in the market, however the young and new-comming developers will choose the clarity and easiness of Ruby on Rails.