I can't agree more. 8k as a Rails dev? Converted to USD at current rates I make about 4.9k as a C++ dev. I feel like I am doing something seriously wrong. :/
It all depends on where you live. When I lived in the Southeast US in a non-tech-center people were offering one third of that 96/yr number for an intermediate rails developer (this was considered by the community to be a low offer http://whatyoupayfor.pen.io/ ), so you probably couldn't get a full time gig for that no matter how good you were. Now I live near Boston and that number sounds perfectly reasonable.