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Lars Pind has just announced that Collaboraid has signed a big deal with a large NGO to develop their intranet using Ruby on Rails.

What's especially exciting about this deal is how fast Collaboraid have been able to adopt Ruby on Rails and secured a commercial contract using it. This shoots a big hole in the whole notion that off-mainstream languages are great barriers to entry for development firms. Here's what Lars' has to say about that:

Learning Ruby was quite easy - we were able to get started just by looking at the existing code, and the Ruby book by the Pragmatic Programmers is excellent. Rails has been similarly easy to learn, what with plenty of support from the Rails community on #rubyonrails, good introduction materials on the site, and a visit by David.

It's wonderful to see development firms like Collaboraid trumph fear-driven technology choices and work with forward-thinking organizations to get working software into the hands of users faster.