bro, tech hr were asking 6 to 8 years rails experience before dhh (rails creator) was even born.
This has been almost a meme on hacker news for some time. You can google it via hn dot algolia dot com by using the right keywords.
Of course, i exaggerated it a bit, just like a lot of startups and vcs pimp their stuff, just that they do it much more, and they do it for money, while my mine was for fun. ha ha ha.