Ruby in Perth?

[Tomas Varsavsky]

Hi,

I'm from Melbourne but assisting a client in Perth in deciding between
Ruby or Java for their next project. One of the concerns that has been
raised is the availability of people with Ruby skills in Perth. Is
there a strong Ruby community in Perth? Are you aware of any
corporates using it?

Cheers,

/Tom

[Myles Eftos]

Hey Tom,

There is 4 freelance Ruby developers in our office
(http://www.twotwenty.com.au), and there is a couple of others littered
around the place. The community isn't huge, but we are pretty solid.

Not sure of too many corporates using it, although we are about to launch a
large survey system for mining companies that has been built in it.

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[David Phillips]

I'm in Perth and available.
I don't think there's a Ruby users group here as such (but I'd love to
be wrong), but a few Ruby people head along to the monthly Port80
meetup. I've only just come from Canberra, so I'm not exactly a great
source of information :)

Java or Ruby? What sort of project?

Cheers,
Dave

[Matt]

Dave,

We have a Ruby on Rails Oceania wing over here in Perth :)

The Port80 forums are updated when we remember to organise a meeting as is the RoRO blog.

Matt.

[Gary McGhee]

On 19/11/2008, at 12:16 PM, Tomas Varsavsky wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I'm from Melbourne but assisting a client in Perth in deciding between
> Ruby or Java for their next project. One of the concerns that has been
> raised is the availability of people with Ruby skills in Perth. Is
> there a strong Ruby community in Perth? Are you aware of any
> corporates using it?

Hello Tom,

JRuby is fast becoming a realistic option, perhaps making the Ruby vs Java
decision easier. JRuby and Java can call each others code, JRuby runs
Rails,
is Ruby 1.8 compatible and achieves similar to better performance. The
deployment story is more like Java than Rails, and soon it will have
connection
pooling and multithreading making it far more efficient on resources than
normal Rails.

Cheers

Gary
(based across the hall from Myles)

--
Gary McGhee
Principal Software Engineer
Buzzware Solutions
http://www.buzzware.com.au
0434 931 470

[Tomas Varsavsky]

> JRuby is fast becoming a realistic option, perhaps making the Ruby vs Java
> decision easier. JRuby and Java can call each others code, JRuby runs  
> Rails,

Yes, we've used JRuby on other clients with great success.
Unfortunately the deployment architecture will be based on Microsoft
Windows Server 2003 so we may have to go the JRuby option if we run
into problems.

/Tom

[Sutto]

I'm not sure on corporates using it but as the others have mentioned
there is a
decent-ish community over here. As much as it's a popularity contest,
as well as
those listed here (David, Matt, Myles, Gary and I) there are also a
few more listed
on Working with Rails -
http://workingwithrails.com/home/gsearch?cx=011646649603620920052%3Aunk85clumau&cof=FORID%3A9&q=Perth%2C+Australia&sa=Find
And a decent amount of us are also freelancing / looking for work as
well so
if you can find them there is usually a decent chance many of them are
available
for hire.

- Darcy

[Matt]

Hi guys,

There's a couple of us a Colleagues ( www.colleagues-info.com ) doing
virtually all our corporate web work on Rails. We are working on our
core digital pen technology as well as a couple of big web sites in
Rails. We still use J2EE but realistically we could probably avoid
even that by using JRails.

Our sites are fairly high availability and the digital pen work
involves alot of in depth stuff in the front and back ends. We're
basically Rails 2.1 + jQuery + MySQL and developing on Netbeans at the
moment.

Our team is growing but for now there's only a couple of us Rails
guys.

Personally I can't imagine going back away from Rails, I think more
and more corporates are going that way.

Tom, we've got a team of about 10 in our technology division (90 in
the company) and do everything from high level business consultancy,
business analysis as well as software architecture and implementation
and have a lot of combined experience in both Java/J2EE and Rails. If
you need some "feet on the ground" getting in front of your client,
let me know.

//matt
0404 491 477

On Nov 19, 12:19 pm, "Myles Eftos" <my...@madpilot.com.au> wrote:
> Hey Tom,
>
> There is 4 freelance Ruby developers in our office
> (http://www.twotwenty.com.au), and there is a couple of others littered
> around the place. The community isn't huge, but we are pretty solid.
>
> Not sure of too many corporates using it, although we are about to launch a
> large survey system for mining companies that has been built in it.
>
> ----------------------------------------------
> Myles Eftos
> Mobile: +61-409-293-183
>
> MadPilot Productions
> URL:http://www.madpilot.com.au
> Phone: +618-6424-8234
> Fax: +618-9467-6289
>

> Try our time tracking system: 88 Miles!http://www.88miles.net