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He's decided to move back to his home country, and me being only slightly technical I've needed to find Rails developers who can support current applications.
My initial goal was to learn Ruby myself, and get to at least a junior-to-intermediate level so I can be in a better position to grow the custom development side of our business.
However, as part of this process, I've seen how few Ruby developers there are in my city (Auckland) compared with PHP developers. I've even found a larger PHP development company that is happy to partner with us (when needed) and support new web apps built using Laravel and Angular.
So, my thinking now is that in my situation it'd be better for us to switch to Laravel moving forward, and properly learn object-oriented PHP and the Laravel framework, as opposed to Ruby on Rails.
After all...our clients couldn't care less what their website's written in, only that it works well, and is supported well by us.
What do you guys think?