Agreed, Ruby the language is fantastic for ease of use starting, then more complex concepts ready to go (functional programming, WASM, C interopt, etc) when you're ready to dive into them.
IMO the jury is still out on its recent changes to make things faster and statically typed. With so many other options in the script-language space (Python and Javascript being biggest by market share) it's difficult to grab a bigger piece of the pie, even if the newer features would be 100% perfect with no downsides.
As far as jobs, most will be tied to Ruby on Rails - the Rails framework of course being built on top of Ruby the language. And I'll mention Rails is also worth at least trying out, to see for yourself what it does and how it works.
IMO the jury is still out on its recent changes to make things faster and statically typed. With so many other options in the script-language space (Python and Javascript being biggest by market share) it's difficult to grab a bigger piece of the pie, even if the newer features would be 100% perfect with no downsides.
As far as jobs, most will be tied to Ruby on Rails - the Rails framework of course being built on top of Ruby the language. And I'll mention Rails is also worth at least trying out, to see for yourself what it does and how it works.
[edit: added reference to JavaScript]