well..better late than never:

At http://www.commerx.com, I've been using Rails for internal and client applications since 2007 (around 7 so far).

--- In crusers@yahoogroups.com, "wndx" <loriolson@...> wrote:
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> --- In crusers@yahoogroups.com, "schuldar" <schuldar@> wrote:
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> > I've been developing web applications with Rails for about a year and a half within the IT department of a large Oil and Gas company downtown.
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> > We use JRuby and deploy to Tomcat. We've had a lot of success and productivity over the likes of Java's Struts and Spring have been quite impressive. But even as we transitioned to this environment it seems the rest of the company is transitioning to .NET.
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> > In general it seems like the entire IT community downtown is turning to Microsoft. Is that true? or are there other pockets of Ruby and Rails that I'm not aware of?
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> It's great to hear that someone local is using JRuby. I would think that it would slot right in to any place using Java already.
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> Despite the fact that this list seems morgue-like at times, there are over 100 people subscribed, so interest in Ruby and Rails is certainly not waning in Calgary. There are several companies developing products with RoR, and some consultancies that take on RoR projects, and lots of places using plain-old Ruby for testing and automation.
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> Labrador Technologies is one such company. http://www.etriever.com is our current product, developed with RoR.
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> Can we get a role-call going here? Anyone else wanting to promote/brag about their Ruby or Rails stuff?
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> Regards, Lori
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