Careful! Trying to get rails adopted can get you fired!
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I just wanted to point this out. You have to be political, and smooth or it can backfire on you. The best way it to get your manager excited without letting them know you have too much emotion invested. Make them think it was their idea to move to rails. |
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Great advice and awesome post! I had to convince management sort of like that. Thankfully I do get paid to develop in Rails all day, but it’s solo and I since I learned solo and work solo I long for a team environment like in my systems admin days. It’s much funner to work with a bunch as enthusiastic as you, and share knowledge in the same field. |
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James is correct, the best way to propogate RoR inside a corporate environment is to show the great effect it can have on your programming productivity. I have a friend who installed an RoR app on a spare Linux box in his cube & now has nearly 100 engineers accessing it on a daily basis. He’s prepping his boss to go to bat for him by describing its mission-critical natue. |
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http://www.workingwithrails.com/high-profile-organisations might help – a list of high profile orgaisations (gotta love friendly URL’s, eh?) that use Rails. |
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