Sneaking Ruby In.
January 04, 2006 @ 02:01 AMHow do you sneak Ruby in to your company?
People have discussed that topic at length. Unfortunately I cannot find any of those articles at the moment (feel free to put URLS in the comments if you know of any.)
I’ve lamented on my blog before that I didn’t think it would be possible to get Ruby and/or Rails into my organization for a variety of reasons. BUT, I did keep my eyes open for an opportunity, and I think I’ve found it.
We have about two weeks to throw together a nearly impossible prototype (impossible due to time constraints) for a demo. The powers that be declared it must be done, "whatever it takes." Given the urgency, the whatever-it-takes declaration, and the fact that the prototype will be scrapped as soon as the demo’s over, I felt that was my opportunity.
Hopefully once this project is done, they will feel comfortable with Rails and would be willing to keep using it for production code.