Yes, that's definitely the norm. Having some experience with Rails, I'm pretty sure that 90% of Rails developers have never written any SQL. If they need to access the production database, most of them would use the rails console on the production app server instead of psql etc.

And I can sympathize. For example, I wouldn't even know how Rails maps a many-to-many relation to SQL tables, so I would have to use the rails console myself to traverse such a relation.

I don't know if it's the norm or not, but leveraging an ORM without knowing SQL is a thing. ORMs have so many benefits (query parameterization just to name one). That and people can stay in their comfort zone language (Ruby, Python, Haskell, etc) and let the ORM do the heavy lifting instead of having to dip down into SQL.

Those that are really good with an ORM can generally go into SQL with ease.

The above is not meant to be objective, just my general observations.

Also, think of the various boot camps (General Assembly, Launch Academy, etc). Those do not teach SQL, but do teach some ORM.

Seems to be, especially among younger developers that learned Rails, and even more so among boot-campers.