I am a product engineer and have helped build software from small startups, to manipulating hundreds of millions of data points. I write API's and make tools that make developers lives easier.
You may want to learn PHP and Laravel instead of Ruby but, believe me, you will get more joy in life if you find a job in a Rails shop.
This is purely opinionated. I started with php and know it very well. It's not my favorite lanuage anymore but I still use it at my day job along with node. I've tried Ruby multiple times and I've never liked it. I'm a python guy, which I learned after Ruby. I would not be happy in a rails shop.
I do however think that learning a functional language can drastically improve how you think of code architecture. I learned erlang. Which appealed to me more than Haskell. But wither would be fine.
I do however think that learning a functional language can drastically improve how you think of code architecture. I learned erlang. Which appealed to me more than Haskell. But wither would be fine.
Yes, sure, that's because I was giving my opinion. ;)