I am proud to announce the first Global 2000 Ruby on Rails website at www.epsondevelopers.com. Seiko EPSON chose RoR for its maintainability, speed, lower overall cost, and built-in framework components.
ionami has been working with EPSON for over 3 years. While we created the original site in Java, EPSON was surprisingly open to a switch. We took the opportunity to redesign the site, and move the original, public site to Rails for ease of management.
This project has two major systems, the public site, that supports software development for their products, and a second, private site, which includes a forum and FAQ site for partner developers. This is 100% Ruby on Rails, with a MySQL db backend. With RoR, we created an easily maintainable website, allowing administrators to manage files, categories and view reports. Really, although it was easy to build, and easy to make bug fixes, the importance of this site is not so much in what it does, or how easily we did it. When a skeptic asks, “Who do I know, that’s using Ruby on Rails today?” This is a showcase for large corporations using RoR. This open up doors for all of us.
Finally, with this launch, ionami is officially a Ruby on Rails shop. We’ll support our customers and other languages where appropriate, but our future is in Ruby on Rails, building RoR applications, and being the #1 development shop on the West Coast for Ruby on Rails.