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by Dominik Wei-Fieg.
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Random thoughts about agile software development as an art
I’ve been browsing through the local bookstores yesterday and have been looking through the programming and IT sections. The two big bookstores I’ve been in both still haven’t got a section for Ruby. There are sections for everything you might (or then, might not) be looking for, Perl, PHP, Python, Java, C#, Joomla, Mambo, ActionScript etc. At the first bookstore I found one book about Rails, the other had four or five. Both had them filed under general programming. Both did not have a single book about Ruby (“The Ruby Way”, the “Pickaxe”, nothing).
That makes me question:
How big is the acceptance of Ruby in Germany? and
How big is the acceptance of Rails in Germany?
I have seen a few articles about Rails in german language magazines, but I somehow have got the feeling, that Ruby and Rails haven’t yet arrived in Germany yet.
Am I right? Or do I just look in the wrong places? At least there are 139 people from Germany registered at workingwithrails (as of today).
Workingwithrails lists two other developers in Freiburg, Germany. Maybe three is enough to start a ruby brigade? We’ll see.
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