Ruby Developers Community in Nigeria

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puts “Hello Folks”

I feel there is a need to build/create a community of Ruby developers in Nigeria, possibly starting with Lagos. This community would help us:

  • Develop in Ruby programming and being up to date with the happenings in the Ruby ecosystem
  • Work on open source projects
  • Share resources
  • Help each other in job hunt.

I believe there is a lot to gain if this becomes successful. I moved first to create a twitter account for this. I am currently about to talk with SitePoint to see how they can be of help.

I am sure Radar is a place to get interested persons and advisors on this. I look forward to hearing your input.

You can drop a comment here or mail at: lagosruby@gmail.com

Muchas Gracias :smile:

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UPDATE: Sitepoint.com has agreed. I am supposed to get back to them on avenues they can help by Monday.

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I think you should checkout GDG Lagos group on Google Groups, more developers flock around there.

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Interested but i dont reside in Lagos

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Why not just try to do one meetup and see what attendance is like? If you can get 3-5 people to meet semi-regularly, things can grow from there. I consider Ruby to be my goto language at the moment, and I’m very interested in seeing how this plays out

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Great idea. @kingsley_silas what do you think ?

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I’m down with anything that is not PHP

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Oh, oh, shots fired.

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Here we go with the PHP bashing as though the language is what makes the application great.

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I guess my post came across like I was bashing PHP. I don’t really blame languages for the state of applications built using said languages, they are all more or less tools that bend to our will. I just feel like we have more than enough PHP developers in Nigeria and it would be nice if other languages get some love.

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Great Idea. This is coming at a time that I need Ruby/Rails developers for a project I am working on. Let’s start with a meetup and see where we go from there.

BTW, most people flocked to PHP because it was the more readily available option back then as opposed to doing java applets or dot net web apps, which by the way were more expensive to learn and to implement.

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Y’all should make @FatherMerry the president of this group though, I hope you know? Have you seen his stuff?

Cruncher - Make some sense of a GTB account statement

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I’m more a rookie o. But it’ll be interesting to see how this unfolds though

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I have to reply with the obligatory “Ruby is not rails” here.

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Hey Kingsley,

That’s an amazing idea. Some of my colleagues and I are actually looking to host a Ruby meetup sometime in July. Check out the expression of interest form here. Please send me an email at bernardojengwa-at-gmail-dot-com let’s see how we can make this happen! :smile:

Between, I think having a meetup group for the various tech stacks we’re familiar with ain’t a bad idea.

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Given Obie Fernandez who wrote the Rails way is CTO of Andela would be great to see how we can help here. @bernard is the best guy to contact on that level so good stuff!

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Hello, so RailsGirls is coming up between 7th and 8th of October at Centre4Tech. You might want to come around to recruit newbies we intend to train.

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Hello @bernard, thanks for reaching out.

Mail has been sent :smile:

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Awesome.

I’m a fan of Obie Fernandez.

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Would reach out now.