Short answer is an absolute yes! Would recommend building programming skills and experience in areas that build on whatever professional, academic experience/credentials you already have. For example, Python+Data Science if you have some math background or have worked in industries that use analytics a lot. Embedded systems if you have worked in auto, hardware/electronics, aviation industries etc. In general, try and use your age and experience to project a well rounded technical ability. Programmers are easy to find, but coders with good domain expertise are more valuable and hard to find. Also very valuable are demonstrable communication skills, especially written. So, if you have maintained any blogs or have had a journalistic stint you can use that to your advantage.
Ageism exists no doubt, but a) tech industry continues to be one of the biggest drivers of jobs worldwide b) freelance/remote work based careers to some extent provide 'age irrelevant' opportunities.
Overall, welcome and good luck!
1) Transfer your overall web development skills to another language/platform (Go, Clojure, Elixir or JS/Node). For anyone 'spoilt' by the beauty of Ruby, Clojure and Elixir are good choices. Given that you are coding professionally since 2008, you should be able to move into 'adept' category quickly in any of the above.
2) Utilize your Ruby programming expertise and become a Mobile developer !! Check out Rubymotion.com. Code in Ruby for Android and iOS.
Suggestion - integrate with https://www.inkfilepicker.com/ so that users can choose images from various sources (picasa, flickr etc) instead of having to upload them only from their local folders?
“In the last 20 years, 13 students from China have won the International Mathematical Olympiad,”..."and India hasn't won the prize even once.”
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article2889936.ece
There have been occasions of scientific and intellectual glory, an Amartya Sen here or a Venkataraman there, but almost all are, as Indian media fondly tags them - 'India born'.
Unless we realize and accept that we have a serious problem, of which the lack of truly great Indian programmers and product companies is just a manifestation, we are not even going to attempt a solution.