GOV.UK to use Ruby on Rails

[David Chua]

Just came across this news today that GOV.UK is launching its new website in Ruby on Rails.

http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/01/with-govuk-british-government.html 

What's also interesting is that they are using EC2 as their server infrastructure.

Pretty amazing news to see such adoption in governmental sectors.

Woot! 

[Paul Gallagher]

It's always disappointing to hear of governments using open source, only to see it all disappear behind the usual barricades of "confidentiality", "security" (and healthy doses of CYA).

I think what really makes this effort stand out is that they've embraced the githubs. Now if we actually see contributions being merged back into the projects: that will be truly game-changing!!

Cheers,
Paul

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