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.