[LRUG] Not for profit organizations using Ruby

[Murray Steele]

I'm pretty sure some parts of the Open Street Map stack are written in
Rails.  I don't know which parts, nor if it's actually legally a
not-for-profit or not.  Harry Wood or Shaun McDonald can probably clear it
up though.

On 3 September 2012 11:43, Alvaro Perez <alvaro.pmartinez at gmail.com> wrote:

> I entered the Ruby world in 2007 at The Sainsbury Laboratory, placed by
> the John Innes Centre, both non-profit as far as I know (at least the
> Sainsbury Lab was at that time). They are close to Cambridgeshire (in
> Norwich) and they perform research in plant related projects, including
> some (plant) genome research. In my specific project, they were processing
> DNA sequences of the Chlamydomonas algae and we built the front end and
> engine to manage that data in RoR.
>
> I'm not sure whether they have continued using Ruby because, as you have
> already mentioned, the bioinformatics world is heavily dominated by Perl
> and especially Bioperl, for which as far as I know there is no replacement
> in any Ruby framework. I guess you'll need to find non-profits outside the
> bioresearch world.
>
> Regards,
> Álvaro.
>
>
>
>
>>
>> On 1 September 2012 23:26, Asfand Yar Qazi <ayqazi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  Hi,
>>>
>>> I work at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridgeshire, a
>>> charity funded organization that performs genome research.  I was curious
>>> about what other not-for-profit organizations use Ruby for their
>>> development needs?
>>>
>>> I know that Nature Publishing use Ruby, but I'm not sure they're a
>>> not-for-profit.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Asfand Yar Qazi
>>>
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