I'm even more shocked OP got a job hacking a language they haven't touched in over eight years.
How so? It's not like OPs been working with the team in question anyway. So there's going to be a learning curve, the least of which is probably standard library/syntax changes?
This was my thought. I'm happily employed so I haven't been looking, but are others finding that Rails work is drying up as well?
Curious to know where the original poster is located?
I am pretty new to rails, 3 years, and I haven't had any trouble finding work. Remote work is definitely not the easiest thing to find but it hasn't been that hard to find. Although I have a front end speciality which is much more in demand than traditional backend heavy developers right now.