Is Ruby on Rails a popular framework in SE Asia?

http://www.quora.com/Is-Ruby-on-Rails-a-popular-framework-in-SE-Asia

Currently:

• Yes for Malaysia - has a shortage of Rails developers
• Yes for Singapore - many Ruby related events, has a Ruby user group, Pivotal Labs presence.
• Yes for Philippines - gaining traction, some companies & contractors converting from PHP/Java

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Jessica Chan, Entrepreneur

As far as I know, in Singapore, most sites are build with PHP/JAVA/.Net. the jobs market does not have many opening for Ruby developers. And recently, most of group buying site are using PHP ( some built from cakephp, codeigniter, drupal), for example, deal.com.sg, streetdeal.sg, ilovedeals.sg ...Small startups will choose PHP and use Amazon web service

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Derrick Ko, Did startups in Singapore

I can definitely answer for Singapore.

Ruby on Rails is gaining steam in Singapore, but it's still not one of the top. The pace of technology adoption is general slower as compared to the US. The local scene is dominated by Java and .NET based frameworks, mainly due to years of enterprise driven development. And PHP is still the de facto interpreted language for many web applications.

However, the global popularity of RoR, coupled with the recent growth of the Singapore startup scene, has seen the framework grow immensely in popularity over the past two years. This is evident in two ways:

• The rise in activity and members of the Singapore Ruby Brigade.
• The start of the Red Dot Ruby Conference, which will be back for a second time in 2012.

In addition, there's an increasing number of significant companies in the area that use Ruby on Rails - Pivotal Labs, Viki, Friendster, etc - which would only serve to further grow the framework's popularity in years to come.

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Eli James, did a startup in Singapore

I can't answer for all of South East Asia, but yes for Singapore, and 'perhaps' (I don't have much experience; anecdotal evidence only) for Malaysia. The Singapore Ruby & Rails scene, in particular, is pretty active:

• The Red Dot Ruby Conference was recently held in Singapore. Huge turnout to hear Matz, Mojombo and co.
• The recent SuperHappyDevHouse at Singapore had a high number of Rails developers and projects. A few of them were from Malaysia (they took a bus down to code and hang out).
• There is a Singapore Ruby Brigade https://groups.google.com/forum/...
• Pivotal Labs (an RoR consulting firm) has an office in Singapore, consults for many startups
• From experience, most meetups have a significant number of Rails developers in attendance.

I say this as a Python guy - I'm envious of the support the Ruby people have in Singapore.

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Jason Torres, Hacker.

 

Ruby/Rails is popular here in the Philippines. We're getting more and more converts coming from PHP/Java sides. The community is active too, recently we had a ruby hackathon and are planning to do it quarterly. More popular companies are adapting Rails, recently Friendster have started converting their entire dev team to Rails (I've heard it was like 30 of them, not sure about that exact figure).

However, even though we're many here. Hiring people might be a little difficult because most of our ruby/rails guys here are employed already, maybe because many companies (most of them are outsourcing ones) are establishing here lately.

Beyond that, some were really just inactive, because we witnessed lately In my company (http://www.proudcloud.net), that we're getting some applicants who were doing ruby/rails for 2-3 years and completely off the radar!