Rails: so successful it’s starting to hurt? 2 Jun 08
One thing that we often hear from customers is how difficult it is find Rails developers. Which is funny since we also hear people saying how they’d love a job building Rails applications.
The well-being of the Rails community is important to us, so we’d like to try and do what we can to keep it bubbling along nicely :)
One of the ideas that came up was some sort of Rails training network that would help bridge any skills gap. But before we do anything, we want to understand whether there is actually a skills gap, or just an “expectation gap” in either price or experience (anybody with any sort of Rails commercial experience is almost certainly gainfully employed at a good rate at the moment).
So, we’d like to hear from you if…
1) You’re in the market for Rails talent and would either be interested in using a Rails training programme, or interested in talking to ‘graduates’ of such a programme or
2) You’re a developer and you’d be interested in signing up for a Rails training programme and potentially getting your name in front of Rails employers.
Drop us an email to hello [at] the brightbox uk domain - we’ll gauge interest and take it from there.
5 months ago Saurabh said:
It’s a common problem everywhere.We along with another Rails solution provided have come up with a course ware that fills most of the gaps in Rails. However, the biggest gap I can say is in the expectations.Many developers are not very disciplined because they migrate from other languages and have those perspectives. Also, there are many people who “think” they know rails but can only “scaffold”.
Starting up with Rails is easy but scaling up the knowledge fast is very tough,specially the rate at which the versions have changed recently and the amount of change introduced in each version.
Please let me know if you are interested in this,we are looking at companies who want internal Rails expertise built and want to help them. Maybe we can speak on designing some Material,presentations, etc.
5 months ago Saurabh said:
To mention, we have also done a Pilot project and identified many areas that people of various experience and backgrounds want to focus upon.
We conducted a training in Narus Networks(www.narus.com).
4 months ago Phil Jeffs said:
We’ve been having trouble recruiting Rails developers recently. This is generally down to a shortage in suitable applicants.
We’re being hounded by recruitment consultants at the moment. All of which assume that because there’s a shortage of developers, our project budgets know no limits.
We’d definitely be interested in speaking to you guys about being involved, particularly if it results in us getting in contact with potential contractors/full time staff.
Phil.
4 months ago Lance Edusei said:
I have run up against the same issues but from the other side so-to-speak.
I am a Rails developer with commercial experience based on Merseyside and have been involved with Rails on and off since the end of 2005.
Can I find work especially in the North West ? Not a chance. I am way past ’scaffolding’ now, that might be good for demos but for real world apps you need to know what you are doing.
Rails is a great platform. It is a little frustrating that more firms are not benefiting from it at the moment.