I know quite a few Ruby Developers that have worked with Rails for years and started to use “JavaScript” more and more the day Typescript became available.
@koichi Would you guys be interested in seeing resumes from candidates with extensive backend and frontend experience, but with limited Ruby experience (ie. the potential to skill up quickly)?
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Either way applying wouldn’t hurt, right? Woo them with a good cover letter!
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You’re right. I’m going to woo them with the best cover letter.
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Debug.Log(“Hello World!”);
There’s my application, 10/10 odds I get hired on the spot. 
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If you really want to impress, put a picture of John woo in front of your resume. There, you Woo’ed them.
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It’s not impossible to get in with a lot of other experience but limited Ruby experience. You can definitely try - it’s hard to say much more than that without the context of all the other applications in front of me, though.
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How about the reverse - Ruby master, but limited front-end experience?
(asking for a friend)
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The most important attribute is full stack experience. Having experience in only Ruby is not enough.
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The most important attribute is all of them
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Nah, the most important attribute is just being a better fit than any of the other applicants. You don’t need to be the perfect applicant, just the best applicant. 
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It is possible to decline every applicant and hope someone better applies later. 
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That’s crazy talk. We’re the cream of the crop.
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Well I mean, a front-end developer that has used the website extensively might be very valuable right? So I guess we are the cream of the crop?
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Ok I lied. The most important attribute is to be able to pun.
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If y’all need some help, just gimme a call, a’right? 
I been practicin’ my skillz…
So, I’ll just be listenin’ for the phone, if that’s cool wit’ you… 
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#bestresume
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I can’t apply anyway but how essential is Ruby on Rails for this job?
EDIT: read the thread and I’m thinking of applying
EDIT 2: I can’t read 
@koichi
I have experience with jQuery, regular javascript, CSS, Laravel (php), a little of scss and some interactivity in front end. I can use MS SQL and MySQL.
Recently I got into Vue and nodejs.
Can I help with something?
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Pretty important
Figuring out the answer to that, I’m afraid, is a long, arduous process that begins with sending in an application.
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