[Rails] Ruby on Rails - South African Community

Guido Sohne
Tue, 04 Apr 2006 14:13:37 -0000

Hi Gopal,

I remember you from the IDLELO conference. Hope you are well.

Nice to see that you are using Rails. I am not in South Africa, but
am located in Ghana. Here in Ghana, we are going to introduce school
kids to Ruby as a first language in a competition called "I Too Can
Program". Before they used QBasic and it resulted in awful code as
well as confused students. In our Advanced Information Technology
Institute, they are using RoR internally and will soon start teaching
it as well (hopefully!). I recommended this to them because RoR is
being adopted worldwide as a better way to do things, and we could
for once be at the front of the revolution instead of tagging along
in the back.

Maybe you can tell your folks over there, that we in Ghana are
grateful to South Africa for conceding the lead and allowing us to
take over :-) Not to mention that even in India, they haven''t yet
began to cotton on.

-- G.

On Mar 31, 2006, at 7:54 AM, Gopal Ramasammy-Cook wrote:

> Hi fellow RoR users,
>
> I am a South African software developer with a company that
> specializes in Java development. I am currently trying to introduce
> RoR, which I have experimented with and like very much. One
> question that I''m constantly confronted with is: "How much of
a
> support base is there for Ruby/Rails locally - i.e. in South
> Africa?"  So I''m trying to put together a list of South
African
> Ruby and/or Rails developers, companies, and projects to use as a
> weapon against the dark forces that refuse to acknowledge the
> validity of RoR as a cool and beautiful thing.  ;-)
>
> If you are based in South Africa, I would really appreciate it if
> you could let me have a short summary of your experiences and list
> of your projects using Rails (with URLs if possible). Also, if you
> know of anyone else within the borders of South Africa who is using
> either Ruby or Rails, I would be grateful if you could send me
> their contact details or any information. In return, I would be
> happy to share my findings with you if you are interested.
>
> Regards,
> Gopal.
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