From: Josh Cheek Date: 2011-08-12T17:34:07+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby Certification ( Was: Online tutor for Ruby ) --bcaec51a8f6a9bc87504aa4ac6df Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 2:43 AM, Chris White wrote: > > On Aug 12, 2011, at 12:10 AM, Phillip Gawlowski wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 8:07 AM, cathy alomari > wrote: > >> > >> Thank you ! Thank you! For the link to ruby-kickstart. What I wanted > to > >> find out is there are "certifications" for RUBY? And if so, where? > > > > Lord, I hope there aren't any certifications for Ruby. Write code, > > open source it, and create a portfolio with that. Code speaks louder > > than paper. > > I thought about this a bit, as I do agree that certifications do not speak > as well as code for assessing someone's coding talents. However, they do > provide a way to help get Ruby more exposure in the business world. Some > managers prefer to have an objective means of evaluating candidates to help > provide some kind of filtering. That is why a certification could help > create confidence in the hiring of Ruby developers. I think it would be > awesome to see something like this get more Ruby folks hired. However, I > also think Ruby needs to have a solid language specification before any sort > of certification can be considered. > > Regards, > Chris White > http://www.twitter.com/cwgem > There is one here (http://www.ruby-assn.org/en/certification.htm) but it's for 1.8.7, so about to be outdated. I've never heard of any outside of that one. I just went through a number of interviews, and no one ever asked about certification, it was looking at my portfolio, then some emails, then skype interview, then fly in for in person interview for a day or two. For the in person interview, all of them involved sitting down writing code with people in some capacity or other. I think a portfolio is better than a certification in the Ruby world as it currently exists. --bcaec51a8f6a9bc87504aa4ac6df--