Continuing our Rails discussion. Should be wrapped up by next post.
Most of the web development world has dabbled on the bleeding edge of technology. Few, however, are brave or stupid enough to live out there. When pushed to pick a language for that new corporate ecommerce site, we all reach for that dog-eared copy of O’Reilly Cookbook for [php, asp, .net, java] because its safe. No one wants to be that girl in the action movies, you know the one who tests the rotted out bridge by walking across it real, real slowly.
There is comfort in knowing you are not the first down some path. So here is a cribbed list of names that are using Rails today. This comes from Obie Fernandez’s Blog and the source material is from rails100 and Working With Rails The comments on Obie’s post are worth reading as well. These represent some big industry names that are using Rails today.
- amazon.com
- BBC
- CapGemini
- BPN
- Cisco
- C|Net
- EA (Electronic Arts)
- IBM
- JP Morgan
- NASA
- Oakley
- Oracle
- Siemens
- Chase Bank (mentioned in the comments)
- American Express
Newspapers like NY Times, LA Times, and Chicago Tribune are trusting Rails for their online sections, which if they are at all trying will be hosted through advertisements. The thousands and tens of thousands of smaller companies that are using rails have each looked at this list and decided that ‘Yeah, I guess I can trust my business on this platform’. I dunno, the bridge is kinda getting crowded.