Ruby at JPMC and CardinalHealth
As you know we have a contest going on to win free admission to erubycon. All you need to do is tell us some really cool thing you are doing with Ruby.
The latest post is from Josh Schairbaum, a leader in in the community who is working hard to get organizations to take notice. He writes about his experience getting Ruby adopted inside some major corporations. First JPMorgan Chase and now CardinalHealth, number 11 and 19 on the Fortune 500 list respectively.
From his post:
So, what am I doing? In short, I’m helping technology leaderships make the best investment decisions, while becoming an industry leader, not an industry follower. I’m proving to them that you don’t needs teams of consultants or a pricey support contract to business value out of the data that your organization holds. I’m proving that Ruby belongs.
His work at JPMC has grown quite well:
At JPMC, I led the team that created the 1st fully-supported and fully-funded Rails application inside the bank. ... The part that I’m most proud of is that 1 year ago, there were no full-time Ruby/Rails jobs at JPMC, today there are 3, and that’s a great thing for the community.
He’s now moved on to CardialHealth, but has not left his innovative ideas behind:
I’m doing something that I think is even more edge-leading and innovative. I’m in the process of deploying several small Camping apps, which work together to create a dashboard of information for IT leadership to make investment decisions
Read the full text here. You can also listen to the Ruby on Rails podcast with Josh and Dan Manges about their work at JPMC.
It’s exciting to see some of the inroads that Ruby is making, and the developers that are happier because of it.
