Flexing Ruby on Rails muscle

The Ruby on Rails job market is doing so well, it even needs maps to direct skilled programmers to where the work is located. Evans Data has reported that while only 14% of developers use the language today, the need for Ruby on Rails programmers will push that to 20% by next year. 

Michael Mullany, vice president of marketing at Engine Yard Inc. in San Francisco, says it's the perfect time for his company to introduce its Flex service for on-demand Ruby on Rails resources in the cloud.

According to Mullany, with more enterprises doing more Ruby on Rails development, they will demand 24 by 7 tech support and advanced features, such as integration with source code repositories systems like GITHUB, which come with Flex.

But at its heart, Flex is just a very simple way to launch provisioned Ruby on Rails systems, run your code on them, bring them down, and only pay for what you use. Mullany claims all it takes is a single click and the amount of capacity you request is at your command.

Flex starts at $375 per month and is ready this week.

 Also, to lure more developers into the Ruby on Rails camp, Engine Yard is having a developer contest. Win toys and "cloud credits." Details here.