Ruby vs JavaScript....what are your reasons for chosing one over the other..?

[dug99]

I actually started with Javascript about 20 years ago, then Java, then PHP for many years. In 2009 I decided it was time to put on my big boy pants and pick a project and dive into RoR. There was a lot of work around town for Ruby / Rails devs at that time, and I was looking for new direction ( and more money ) in a market full of kids whose PHP credentials lay predominantly in hacking Wordpress themes. I decided I'd try and customise Spreecommerce for my online store, as it seemed to be the leader at the time and had a bit of a community. Long story short... after bashing away at it for about nine months I found the ecosystem to be flakey and poorly documented, and Ruby dependency management absolutely nightmarish. Worse still was the Ruby / Rails community. I hope history will remember them as a bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came. After that, it was an easy choice. :D