--- title: "The Journey Begins (and why it starts with Ruby)" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2011/1/2/the-journey-begins-and-why-it-starts-with-ruby.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2011/1/2/the-journey-begins-and-why-it-starts-with-ruby.html" published: "2011-01-02T13:23:08" updated: "2011-01-02T13:23:08" tags: [] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "I am so freaking glad I made this move . I’ve gotten more than a dozen emails from companies in Israel doing non-MS stuff, who may be interested in me interning for them. Technologies range from Java Based Scalability…" usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # The Journey Begins (and why it starts with Ruby) By Roy Osherove January 2, 2011 **Historical article** · Originally published January 2, 2011; technical details may be outdated. I am _so freaking glad_  I [made this move](https://osherove.com/blog/2010/12/30/hire-me-as-your-ruby-intern-for-a-year.html). I’ve gotten more than a dozen emails from companies in Israel doing non-MS stuff, who may be interested in me interning for them. Technologies range from Java Based Scalability and Infrastructure running against NOSQL databases in the cloud, to pure Ruby on Rails against MySql and into Django\\Python material. ### The open source scene in Israel seems to be steaming with opportunity. Some people have asked me why I chose to work in Ruby. Why not **Python**? Why not **Node.Js**? The answer is  - that I only choose to _start_ with Ruby. One has to start with something, and from my journey so far, Ruby seems to be the most welcoming to newbies, and with the largest community. I might be totally wrong, of course, but that’s the beauty of this journey. I don’t know what I don’t know yet. I’m about to know what it is that I don’t know, and then I’ll know that I need to learn it. I don’t know in what priority to learn things, so I’m just plunging head first into the open source pool with something that seems reasonable. I may look back on this move and laugh how silly it was that I chose Ruby, but by then, I will have learned a great deal. Some of the companies I’ve been in contact with so far: - [MadMimi](http://madmimi.com/) - [Fiverr](http://fiverr.com/) - [KenShoo](http://kenshoo.com/) - SyGen - [SaasPulse](http://saaspulse.com/) - [BaLiGam](http://www.baligam.co.il/) and a few more. ## Thanks for taking a risk with me! I’ll be meeting with all of them and sharing what I can during my learning process. --- ## About the author **Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery. ### Sites - [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership. - [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts. - [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin. - [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model. - [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps. - [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes). ### Social - X: https://x.com/royosherove - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/ ### Contact - Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7 ### License Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/