# Ruby on Rails - South African Community **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [March 31, 2006, 9:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-south-african-community/56453 "2006-03-31T09:56:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gopal\_Ramasammy-Coo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@Gopal\_Ramasammy-Coo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Gopal_Ramasammy-Coo)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 9:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-south-african-community/56453/1 "2006-03-31T09:56:14Z")
Hi fellow RoR users, I am a South African software developer with a company that specializes in Java development. I am currently trying to introduce RoR, which I have experimented with and like very much. One question that I’m constantly confronted with is: “How much of a support base is there for Ruby/Rails locally - i.e. in South Africa?” So I’m trying to put together a list of South African Ruby and/or Rails developers, companies, and projects to use as a weapon against the dark forces that refuse to acknowledge the validity of RoR as a cool and beautiful thing. 😉 If you are based in South Africa, I would really appreciate it if you could let me have a short summary of your experiences and list of your projects using Rails (with URLs if possible). Also, if you know of anyone else within the borders of South Africa who is using either Ruby or Rails, I would be grateful if you could send me their contact details or any information. In return, I would be happy to share my findings with you if you are interested. Regards, Gopal. * * * Gopal Ramasammy-Cook Enchantment Engineer And Ethos Alchemist PsyberGate (PTY) LTD Cell: 082 921 8141 Tel: (021) 448 0532 Fax: (021) 448 8460 Company Email: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid Company Website: [www.psybergate.com](http://www.psybergate.com) Creative Website: www.gopalrc.co.za ---
**Author:** ![Gopal\_Ramasammy-Coo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@Gopal\_Ramasammy-Coo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Gopal_Ramasammy-Coo)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 11:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-south-african-community/56453/2 "2006-03-31T23:10:29Z")
yea i am in cape town and i work with rails, recently started i usually do php and python but RoR rocks. and i know a few other people who develop in rails locally 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Gopal\_Ramasammy-Coo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@Gopal\_Ramasammy-Coo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Gopal_Ramasammy-Coo)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 4:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-south-african-community/56453/3 "2006-04-01T16:06:50Z")
Hi, I’m in Cape Town as well and recently started with Rails. Usually we deal with SAP systems. ---
**Author:** ![Gopal\_Ramasammy-Coo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@Gopal\_Ramasammy-Coo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Gopal_Ramasammy-Coo)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 4:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-south-african-community/56453/4 "2006-04-04T16:18:55Z")
Hi Gopal, I remember you from the IDLELO conference. Hope you are well. Nice to see that you are using Rails. I am not in South Africa, but am located in Ghana. Here in Ghana, we are going to introduce school kids to Ruby as a first language in a competition called “I Too Can Program”. Before they used QBasic and it resulted in awful code as well as confused students. In our Advanced Information Technology Institute, they are using RoR internally and will soon start teaching it as well (hopefully!). I recommended this to them because RoR is being adopted worldwide as a better way to do things, and we could for once be at the front of the revolution instead of tagging along in the back. Maybe you can tell your folks over there, that we in Ghana are grateful to South Africa for conceding the lead and allowing us to take over 🙂 Not to mention that even in India, they haven’t yet began to cotton on. – G. ---
**Author:** ![Gopal\_Ramasammy-Coo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@Gopal\_Ramasammy-Coo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Gopal_Ramasammy-Coo)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 4:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-south-african-community/56453/5 "2006-04-04T16:25:05Z")
Hi Gopal, I remember you from the IDLELO conference. Hope you are well. Nice to see that you are using Rails. I am not in South Africa, but am located in Ghana. Here in Ghana, we are going to introduce school kids to Ruby as a first language in a competition called “I Too Can Program”. Before they used QBasic and it resulted in awful code as well as confused students. In our Advanced Information Technology Institute, they are using RoR internally and will soon start teaching it as well (hopefully!). I recommended this to them because RoR is being adopted worldwide as a better way to do things, and we could for once be at the front of the revolution instead of tagging along in the back. Maybe you can tell your folks over there, that we in Ghana are grateful to South Africa for conceding the lead and allowing us to take over 🙂 Not to mention that even in India, they haven’t yet began to cotton on. – G.