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I got started with rails in 2004 and went from there. Prior to that, I mostly did perl, java, and PHP.

So I learned rails, but at the time I was doing Java/JSP projects. But eventually, I got on some projects that were entirely rails. Now, most of my customers don't care what the technology is as long as it does what they want.

After that, it just made sense to keep learning the underlying language, ruby.

Yea thats absolutely true, the classic "dont tell me about your stack, show me the app." chuckles Well good stuff man. :) As always keep it up.