# Help Please: Anyone working for the Gov using RoR?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-please-anyone-working-for-the-gov-using-ror/195469>\
**Category:** Deployment\
**Created:** [September 23, 2010, 3:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-please-anyone-working-for-the-gov-using-ror/195469 "2010-09-23T15:10:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![mydarkpassenger](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@mydarkpassenger](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mydarkpassenger)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 3:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-please-anyone-working-for-the-gov-using-ror/195469/1 "2010-09-23T15:10:29Z")

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Greetings everyone,

Is there anyone working for any branch of the government (military  
branches  
would be particularly helpful) who is currently using Ruby or RoR?  
Currently, there is no CON (Certificate of Networthiness) for Ruby or  
Rails  
for the US Army (if there is, it’d be news to me). I am trying to start  
the  
process of getting a CON for the “Rails development environment” which  
is a  
lot of work (Rails, RubyGems, Deployment softwares, etc. would all need  
to  
have CON’s). It would be good to get in contact with someone currently  
using  
RoR in the Gov. I can use this information to basically say to the Army,  
“See, the Marines (whoever) are using RoR, here is their CON paperwork  
blah,  
blah, blah…”

Thank you all.

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**Author:** ![mydarkpassenger](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@mydarkpassenger](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mydarkpassenger)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2010, 12:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-please-anyone-working-for-the-gov-using-ror/195469/2 "2010-10-08T12:32:20Z")

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Gene,

I am in the Army and am currently assigned as a research scientist and  
assistant professor of computer science in the EECS Dept at USMA. We  
are conducting our first teach using Ruby on Rails and so far it has  
been awesome. I finish up my tour this year and will PCS. I am a huge  
fan of RoR and will carry the RoR torch with me wherever I go next!

I am not sure we can help, but would be happy to try.

V/R  
TC

Gene A. wrote:

> Greetings everyone,
> 
> Is there anyone working for any branch of the government (military  
> branches  
> would be particularly helpful) who is currently using Ruby or RoR?  
> Currently, there is no CON (Certificate of Networthiness) for Ruby or  
> Rails  
> for the US Army (if there is, it’d be news to me). I am trying to start  
> the  
> process of getting a CON for the “Rails development environment” which  
> is a  
> lot of work (Rails, RubyGems, Deployment softwares, etc. would all need  
> to  
> have CON’s). It would be good to get in contact with someone currently  
> using  
> RoR in the Gov. I can use this information to basically say to the Army,  
> “See, the Marines (whoever) are using RoR, here is their CON paperwork  
> blah,  
> blah, blah…”
> 
> Thank you all.