I think Ruby is already there in many organizations Thanks in part to Rails, many companies find the benefits of Ruby greatly outweigh their concerns about adopting what that might consider to be a somewhat unusual technology. Chad Fowler and I give Ruby training across the US, and we find people from companies large and small in every class.

Ultimately, I don’t want to force companies to use Ruby. If it has benefits for them, they’ll use it. Our job as evangelists is to try to help them identify those benefits, while at the same time not overselling them.

Dave

Thank you for dropping by. I own many of the PragProg Titles and swear by them.

As a budding Rubyist (I mostly work with .NET) I’ve noticed others like myself being mostly hobbyists. Some organizations across the industrial spectrum are starting to embrace technologies based in Ruby (Rails, WATIR) but they are still few and far between. As a “Ruby Evangelist” what do you see as the adoptive curve for the language to make into the enterprise-level mainstream?

Thank you in advance!

Cheers,

Todd