# South African Ruby Programmers

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/south-african-ruby-programmers/59653>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [May 5, 2006, 1:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/south-african-ruby-programmers/59653 "2006-05-05T01:25:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![leslieviljoen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@leslieviljoen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/leslieviljoen)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2006, 1:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/south-african-ruby-programmers/59653/1 "2006-05-05T01:25:48Z")

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Hello!

If you program in Ruby and stay in South Africa, I’d really appreciate  
it  
if you could add your name and location to my wiki page:  
[http://mobeus.homelinux.org/eclectica/show/RubySouthAfrica](http://mobeus.homelinux.org/eclectica/show/RubySouthAfrica)

I often need Ruby programmers that I can recommend for specialised  
tasks and just don’t know enough of them.

Leslie

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**Author:** ![leslieviljoen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@leslieviljoen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/leslieviljoen)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2006, 9:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/south-african-ruby-programmers/59653/2 "2006-05-06T21:37:50Z")

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> I often need Ruby programmers that I can recommend for specialised  
> tasks and just don’t know enough of them.

Come on, there have to be more than one Ruby programmer in South  
Africa! Reyn, where are you? Thanks Farrel for adding to the list!  
Know of any more Ruby programmers in Cape Town?

Les

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**Author:** ![leslieviljoen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@leslieviljoen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/leslieviljoen)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2006, 1:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/south-african-ruby-programmers/59653/3 "2006-05-07T01:00:50Z")

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Just a few guys who used it back when I was at varsity. Don’t know  
anyone who uses it professionally, but then neither do I  
unfortuantely…

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**Author:** ![leslieviljoen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@leslieviljoen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/leslieviljoen)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2006, 5:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/south-african-ruby-programmers/59653/4 "2006-05-07T05:50:36Z")

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On May 4, 2006, at 4:24 PM, Leslie V. wrote:

> If you program in Ruby and stay in South Africa, I’d really  
> appreciate it  
> if you could add your name and location to my wiki page:  
> [http://mobeus.homelinux.org/eclectica/show/RubySouthAfrica](http://mobeus.homelinux.org/eclectica/show/RubySouthAfrica)

All the South Africans I know live in Seattle. MS and others do a  
good job of recruiting from Rhodes. Only one codes in ruby tho. 🙂

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**Author:** ![leslieviljoen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@leslieviljoen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/leslieviljoen)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2006, 10:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/south-african-ruby-programmers/59653/5 "2006-05-07T10:14:26Z")

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I live in Cape Town, and I’m originally from Seattle (attended a Ruby  
Brigade meeting once at the Omni offices).

There are a few other Ruby developers around Cape Town. I’ll encourage  
those I know to add their names.

MS and others do a pretty good job recruiting at UCT and Stellenbosch to  
apparently. Friends of mine were scouted just recently here.

Chris

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**Author:** ![leslieviljoen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@leslieviljoen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/leslieviljoen)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 10:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/south-african-ruby-programmers/59653/6 "2006-05-15T10:49:50Z")

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On May 7, 2006, at 1:12 AM, removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote:

> I live in Cape Town, and I’m originally from Seattle (attended a Ruby  
> Brigade meeting once at the Omni offices).

whoa…  
that is awesome.