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I second this.

Ruby is a great language, because it was designed with developer productivity in mind. Same goes for Rails. The most feature complete framework I've seen to date. Django is up there too.

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Ruby/Rails might be great. Not so sure if it is the easiest way to earn. A bloated opinionated framework will be difficult for new comers to grasp. PHP would be the easiest.

I mostly agree with this for a pure beginner, however learning rails makes you pretty hireable, which is OP's goal.

Still, there's so much magic happening that it'll be hard to get a grasp on things.

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