So you're struggling as a Ruby developer in 2021, where you reach the right video. Let me explain. This video was brought to you by Digitalink Academy. You're number one source to learning programming by us and get to that six figure freelance salary you desire. Our courses include our secret project course, our freelance Kickstarter, our Python course and our interview programming course and much, much more. So if you haven't already, go ahead and click the link below to get to our free seven step freelance guide so that we can help take your career to the next level. I'll see you guys in the course. All right, Ruby developers, don't... Please wait, wait, wait before you start hammering and going to the comments section. I wanna really embrace the Ruby developers today. And even before you guys start bashing, hold on, give me an opportunity to really start to make my case here. I think everybody's gonna be happy with this video because I've been known in the past to say, don't use Ruby, it's a dying language. Leave it alone, which in certain cases, that's the truth. But I wanna make sure I put things in perspective so that everybody can know where I am. And there's still value in Ruby. There's a lot of legacy code out there still written in Ruby. You got place, I think Shopify or something like that is still written in Ruby to this day.  But I wanna make sure if you're struggling as a Ruby developer, we give you a course of action that's gonna help you maintain your Ruby skills but also position you in the future as well. And guys, don't bash Ruby developers, at least not yet. Wait till the five minutes more. But yeah, we're gonna do that here. So at the end of the day, guys, let's talk about the problem. Problem with Ruby developers, guys. As a programming language compared to other options on the market, there's better options. But we're talking about if you're a brand new developer starting the day with no experience, you're trying to learn how to code and you're wanting to pick a language, do not pick Ruby because unless you have a job, somebody often you a job and you've been struggling to find work anywhere else and you've been doing this for months, even years and you finally found an opportunity and they like, you gotta learn Ruby, learn Ruby. But if it's not that you don't have any job prospect, you're just picking just to learn, stick with the PHP, stick with the Python, stick with JavaScript and then expand from there to the Java's, the C sharp to C, C plus plus all in that area, guys. That's the roadmap by how I suggest most developers in 2021. That being said, for Ruby, if you already have Ruby skills, you've been in the game for Ruby for a while, you had work, you know the frameworks, you know Rails, all that stuff and you just really wanna continue to leverage those skills, then there's opportunities for you guys. Just go in the Google search, lot of legacy companies still use Rails as a framework and they also use Ruby also for a lot of web development and scripting and all that good stuff, guys. But it's all about expectations, it's all about the struggle. Guys, you gotta understand when, you gotta understand when it's time to get off the horse. You've enrolled that wave so long, it's time to move on. But you don't have to move on all at once and that's the key to this video. You don't have to move on all at once as a Ruby developer. You can still develop in Ruby, but acquiring another skill set as well in a different programming language. The good news is as long as you know the fundamentals of programming, loops, arrays, variables, just know how to write code, when to put semi-colors, when to use commas, the syntax from one programming language to another is not that bad. The fundamentals are gonna be the same, you just gotta learn syntax.  It shouldn't be relatively easy because you already know the fundamentals. You know a syntax of a programming language, you just gotta do the translation there. You know, I can understand if you're moving more towards a Java C sharp because that was a lot higher, you're moving from a high level language to more of a lower language and it's a lot more code to write. But even then guys, it's still the same. You understand the fundamentals, you just gotta really understand the syntax of a language.  Put that in the comments for me so that we can have a conversation and I can help you really with a roadmap three, five years from now so that you can position your career even with your current skill to advance your career, to make more money, live a lifestyle you wanna live and then put you in a position to win guys. There's ways, there's a lot of demand for software developers. Yeah, they're not just hiring anybody, any Joe Blow, like who know HTML like they used to do in the mid 90s, early 2000s.  I wanna help you guys out with that. And again, comment below so that you can get your opportunity as well. Also below, if you haven't checked out my Seven Step Guide, go ahead and check that out and it's free. And then after you take the Seven Step Guide, you can also purchase some premium courses to really escalate your development career so that you can get that job you want and really put yourself in a position to learn those projects guys. And a lot of good stuff. But again, let's not bash the Ruby developers.  As long as you die on the ship as your career, as you're retiring, like you're saying you're gonna be retiring in four to five years or even 10 years from now and you just wanna ride that ship down and you're not willing to change, you just, that's what you're gonna program, that's what you're gonna write and that's what you're gonna do right that way.  And again, it's all about perspective, it's all about your opportunity. There may be a city out there that I'm not aware of that is only Ruby developers, only Ruby jobs and it's gonna be thriving and I'm not aware of. If you know about that comment below, but I'm not aware of that. But at the end of the day, you guys can succeed in whatever programming language as long as you know the specific use case of that particular programming language and you are flexible enough to be able to learn more programming language, understand the syntax, take those fundamentals you learned from Ruby and really translate that to another software stack. Because if you know the business, you know how to solve industry problems, regardless of the programming language, it's gonna end up being the same end result regardless and that continuous improvements just gonna really take your career to the next level. So if you haven't already guys, go ahead, tell me your issues you've been having, you've been struggling with Ruby below so that we can start a conversation. Like, subscribe to the content. If you haven't already, go ahead and pick up that seven step guide Ruby developers you can get it to so that you can take your freelance career to the next level. 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In 1980, researchers in England reported a series of women who suffered from chronic diarrhea that resolved on a gluten-free diet, yet did not have evidence of celiac disease, the autoimmune disorder associated with gluten intolerance. The medical profession was skeptical at the time, and even 30 years later. So much so that, much like patients who had irritable bowel syndrome, patients claiming non-celiac gluten sensitivity were commonly referred to psychiatrists because they were believed to have an underlying mental illness. Psychological testing of such patients, however, found no evidence as they were suffering from some kind of psychosomatic hysteria. The medical profession has a history of dismissing diseases as all in people's heads—PTSD, ulcerative colitis, migraines, ulcers, asthma, Parkinson's, MS. Despite resistance from the prevailing medical community at the time, these health problems have subsequently been confirmed to be credible physiologically-based disorders rather than psychologically-based confabulations. On the flip side, the internet is rife with unsubstantiated claims about gluten-free diets, which has spilled over into the popular press to make gluten the diet villain du jour, with claims like, 17 million Americans are gluten-sensitive. However, it must be remembered that this is also big business. When literally billions of dollars are at stake, it's hard to trust anybody. So is always best to stick to the science. What sort of evidence do we have for the existence of a condition presumed to be so widespread? Not much. The evidence base for such claims was unfortunately very thin because we didn't have randomized controlled trials demonstrating that the entity even exists. The gold standard for confirming non-celeac gluten sensitivity requires a gluten-free diet followed by a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled food challenge, like you give someone a muffin, and they're not told if it's a gluten-free muffin or a gluten-filled muffin to control for placebo effects and see what happens. The reason this is necessary is because when you actually do this, a number of quote-unquote gluten-sensitive patients don't react at all to disguised gluten, and instead react to the gluten-free placebo, so it truly was in their heads. But we never had that kind of level of evidence until 2011, when a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial was published, which tested to see if patients complain of irritable bowel type symptoms, who claimed they felt better on a gluten-free diet, despite not having celiac disease, actually could tell if they were given gluten-free bread and muffins or gluten-containing bread and muffins. They started out gluten-free and symptom-free for two weeks, and then they were challenged with the bread and muffins. Here's what happened to the 15 patients who got the placebo, meaning they started out on a gluten-free diet and continued on a gluten-free diet, they got worse. Just a thought that they may be eating something that was bad for them made them feel all cramping and bloated. This is what's called a nocebo effect. The placebo effect is when you give someone something useless and they feel better.  But the small group that got the actual gluten felt worse still. So, they concluded this non-celiac gluten intolerance may actually exist. It was a small study, though, and even though they claimed the gluten-free bread and muffins were indistinguishable, maybe at some level the patients could tell which is which. So, in 2012, researchers in Italy took 920 patients that had been diagnosed with non-celiac gluten sensitivity and put them to the test with a double-blinded wheat challenge by giving them not bread and muffins, but capsules filled with wheat flour or filled with placebo flour, or kind of placebo powder, no flour at all. And more than two-thirds failed the test, like they got worse on the placebo or better on the wheat. But of those that passed, there was a clear benefit to staying on the wheat-free diet, confirming the existence of a non-celiac wheat sensitivity. Now, note they said wheat sensitivity, not gluten sensitivity. Gluten itself may not be causing gut symptoms at all. See, most people with wheat sensitivity have a variety of other food sensitivities. Two-thirds are sensitive to cow's milk protein as well, then eggs were the most common culprit after that. So if you put people on a diet low in common triggers of irritable bowel symptoms and then challenge them with gluten, there's no effect. Same increase in symptoms with high gluten, low gluten, or no gluten. Calling into question the very existence of non-celiac gluten sensitivity. Interestingly, despite being informed that avoiding gluten wasn't apparently doing a thing for their gut symptoms, many participants opted to continue following a gluten-free diet as they just subjectively described feeling better. So the researchers wondered if avoiding gluten might be improving the mood of those with wheat sensitivity, and indeed, short-term exposure to gluten appeared to induce feelings of depression in these patients. But whether non-celiac gluten sensitivity is a disease of the mind or the gut, it is no longer a condition that can be dismissed.


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