Ruby Central

Ruby Central is the parent organization of the annual International and Conferences and is a visible presence and point of contact for corporate sponsors interested in supporting these conferences and other Ruby activities. Active for nearly a decade, Ruby Central has provided support for Ruby community activities including Ruby community representation for Google's Summer of Code, RubyConf, RailsConf, RailsConf Europe, the and various other sponsorships. Ruby Central has also hosted RubyForge and the Ruby community gem repository since their inceptions.

37signals

is the original company behind Ruby on Rails. The framework was extracted by David Heinemeier Hansson from the company's product. Today the company has a whole suite of products all built with Ruby on Rails.

37signals also employs four of the currently active Rails core members (Jeremy Kemper, Pratik Naik, Joshua Peek, and David Heinemeier Hansson).

Phusion

Phusion provides amazing Ruby & Rails and to , e.g. The New York Times, Pixar, 37signals, Oakley and Twitter.

Our flagship products are and which allow for ease of use in Rails deployment as well as robustness, performance and reliability. Keep an eye out on our and/or follow us on for our upcoming product announcement currently being beta tested by our high-end clients to ensure absolute robustness and performance in even the most demanding business environments.

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Pivotal Labs

Pivotal Labs is a recognized leader in agile, rails, and mobile development. We've been building high reliability systems for clients for over 20 years, and our Rails practice has delivered more than 80 client products since its launch four years ago. Long a leader in the Agile development world, we’ve been applying agile techniques to accelerate development, reduce risk, and increase responsiveness to market trends for startups and enterprises alike. And Pivotal doesn't just deliver a great product, we also equip our clients to execute on their own, giving them the tools and techniques they need to continue to excel.

Our Jolt award winning project management tool, Pivotal Tracker, has become the industry standard in the Rails development world, and we invite you to use it, if you’re not already.

With over 80 talented and enthusiastic people in our offices in San Francisco, New York, Boulder and Singapore, we’re ready to work with you and to take your development to the next level. And we’re always in the market for great talent, so come work with us!

Be sure to check out our tech talks or on our iTunes Podcast channel. There's a new 1-hour talk on key topics of interest to Ruby developers almost every week.

We’re excited to be a sponsor of the Ruby Summer of Code. We look forward to all the great stuff that will come out of it.

LSA Networks

LSA Networks is a recognized leader in digital social networking properties, mainly focused on online dating platforms. LSA Networks owns and operates several web and mobile applications serving a global user base, including the widely popular Local Sex App, on of the most successful location based casual dating apps on the market. As a sponsor they illustrate the versatility and unique flexibility of their long history with Ruby in the tech startup space.

New Relic

New Relic is the leading provider of application performance management tools for Ruby and Java applications. More than 3500 companies use New Relic RPM to monitor, troubleshoot and optimize applications deployed either in the cloud or in dedicated hosting environments. RPM Lite is a free, fully supported, unlimited time version available at .

O'Reilly

spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazines, and conferences. Since 1978, O'Reilly has been a chronicler and catalyst of leading-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and spurring their adoption by amplifying faint signals from the alpha geeks who are creating the future. Whether it's delivered in print, online, or in person, everything O'Reilly produces reflects the company's unshakeable belief in the power of information to spur innovation. An active participant in the technology community, the company has a long history of advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism.

Entryway

is a shop dedicated to delivering high quality software implemented with care and responsibility. We have been building Ruby and Rails applications for the past 3 years, with experience delivering tens of thousands of hours of production code for our clients.

Our core value is to use Entryway's talent to support sustainable businesses that we feel are economically, environmentally, and socially responsible. Organizations that embody these traits bring out the best in us. As a result, the quality of work we do nurtures organizations to become stronger benefactors of the communities they serve.

We are stoked to be supporting the Ruby Summer of Code, it will be a groovy summer for Ruby indeed. Ruby has been instrumental to the success of our company and brought immeasurable amounts of personal and company wide happiness to our craft, we are happy to give back.

Heroku

Heroku is a leading provider of cloud computing, offering a Ruby platform-as-a-service focused on ease of use, automation, and reliability. The San Francisco, CA-based company is a passionate and active supporter of Ruby technologies and cloud architecture. Tens of thousands of developers worldwide have deployed over 54,000 applications to Heroku. For more information, please visit and or .

Hashrocket

is a premium boutique web design and development firm specializing in delivery of custom, large-scale applications. It is led by Obie Fernandez, author of the best-selling reference bible The Rails Way, and has approximately 40 people in offices in three offices: Jacksonville Beach, Florida, Chicago, Illinois and Santiago, Chile. Hashrocket is noted globally for technical excellence and strict adherence to Agile practices such as pair programming and behavior-driven development.

Shopify

is the leading hosted e-commerce platform for small- to medium-sized businesses on the web. Shopify currently provides storefronts to over 6,000 online merchants including Tesla Motors, Foo Fighters, Amnesty International and Evisu. The goal of Shopify is to allow merchants to sell online through their very own beautiful e-commerce website with as few hassles as possible.

Shopify has a rich history with Ruby and Ruby on Rails. Tobias Lütke started using Ruby on Rails to write the application that would later become Shopify on the day of the Rails initial public release in 2004. Tobi would later become a member of the Rails Core Team and extract many popular and widely used Ruby projects from Shopify including Active Merchant, Liquid, and Delayed Job.

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VMware

delivers solutions for business infrastructure virtualization that enable IT organizations to energize businesses of all sizes. With the industry leading virtualization platform—VMware vSphere™—customers rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses, improve agility, ensure business continuity, strengthen security and go green. With 2009 revenues of $2 billion, more than 170,000 customers and 25,000 partners, VMware is the leader in virtualization which consistently ranks as a top priority among CIOs. VMware is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at www.vmware.com.

Thoughtbot

is a technology consulting firm that provides web application development and design services. We offer Ruby on Rails web application design and development services, conduct Ruby and Rails training events, and offer a "kickstart" service for web startups. We've released and maintain several popular open source projects, including shoulda, paperclip, factory girl and clearance. We also operate Hoptoad (the "app error app")—a web service which aids developers in their goal for an error free production environment existence.

Yammer

helps you organize, archive, search and share the conversations you have every day at work. We won the TechCrunch 50 the day we launched and we haven't slowed down since. With more than 70,000 corporate clients and more than 800,000 users, we're growing like crazy and we need talented folks to help us keep up. Life as an engineer at Yammer is pretty fantastic: problems big enough to be interesting but small enough to be owned by individuals, talented colleagues, new technologies, and no more process than is absolutely necessary. Check us out at and .

Engine Yard Inc.

Engine Yard provides automation technologies and services for Ruby on Rails, including Engine Yard Cloud, an application services platform for web developers and web teams. It provides easy-to-use, automated Rails application deployment and management, with a design philosophy that allows easy migration of existing applications. Engine Yard employs top industry experts and sponsors or contributes to many Open Source projects and efforts such as , and . Headquartered in San Francisco, Engine Yard is backed by Benchmark Capital, New Enterprise Associates, and Amazon.com. Visit , and .

ENTP

is an application development team based in Portland, Oregon. Our focus is to build innovative products that redefine how people work together over the web. We also strive to maintain a strong presence within our community through contributions to open source software.

We founded ENTP after collaborating on open source projects. Over the last few years we’ve released a great deal our code and launched two of our core products, and . They have both become well known within several development communities.

Lighthouse is a ticket-tracking application that creates a simple workflow for project development and team collaboration. Lighthouse also provides free hosted ticket-tracking for open source projects. Thanks to the folks at , Lighthouse has become the leading ticket-tracker for many development teams and open source tools ranging from weekend projects to the Ruby on Rails code base.

Tender Support is a customer support application that provides seamless integration with your products and services. Development on Tender began after two years of experience on Lighthouse. We tried every option from forums and hosted support services to email and chat. Nothing fulfilled our need for a unified customer support experience, so we built it. Tender Support also provides free hosted accounts for open source projects.

We’re extremely excited to be a part of the Ruby Summer of Code project and are looking forward to helping in any way possible!

The Frontier Group

Active for nearly a decade, is a web design and development team based in Perth, Australia. A team of 12, our core focus is building Ruby on Rails applications for startups through to big business, using Agile processes. We run the local here in Perth, and there's always a desk here if someone needs it. Oh, and we're always looking for new talent.

Even with a team of 12, our long-term client projects keep us working around the clock. This year will hopefully bring more talented Rubyists on deck which will see us increase our contribution back to the open source community, and provide for more opportunities such as sponsoring this cause.

We're proud to sponsor the Ruby Summer of Code in 2010 and look forward to both seeing the outcome and lending a hand.

Intridea

Intridea is a development consulting firm and products company specializing in web development with Ruby and cross-platform mobile applications. We provide products and services for large companies like Comcast and Geico, associations like AARP and the American Chemical Society, and small, scrappy startups that you haven't even heard of (yet!). We specialize in blending battle-tested techniques and solutions with cutting-edge technology, crafting solutions that are as solid and usable as they are fun to build. Our developers are passionate about our customers and dedicated to the open source movement, with contributions to projects like Rails, XRuby, Scalr, Apache Camel, ruby_bosh, numerous gems and plugins, and sponsorship of open-source development through campaigns just like this one.

Intrideans have the freedom to work from our DC office, or remotely from wherever they call home. Being an Intridean is more than just working at Intridea: it's subscribing to our company culture of open-source evangelism and excellence in development. We spend a lot of time making sure both of those principles are honed through company-sponsored conference speaking, blogging, weekly "Coffee Hour" where we discuss whatever we're working on or reading at the moment, and other group events where we hack, write, or just grab some good Thai food together.

Braintree

Braintree helps businesses accept credit card payments by providing a merchant account, payment gateway, and credit card storage. We also offer managed recurring billing, taking care of things like proration, upgrades, and retrying failed transactions.

We're modernizing the way merchants integrate with payment gateways.No SOAP or RPCs with key/value pairs. Instead, we expose a rich domain model through client libraries written in the programming languages that you work with on a daily basis (Ruby, Python, Java, etc). Much like Rails eliminated "XML sit-ups," we're eliminating web service integration sit-ups. We make security easy -- using our Transparent Redirect API you can charge your customers without sensitive data passing through your system, or resorting to a hosted page.

We're also doing the right thing on the business side. In our industry, practices like hiding fees and holding credit card data hostage (so the merchant is locked-in) are commonplace. Our pricing is straightforward and transparent, and we lead the industry by providing complete data portability.

Our customers include some of the fastest growing and most respected online businesses. Our customers frequently express appreciation for our ability to educate and provide guidance in this complex industry and praise us for our exceptional customer service.

Aptana

is the leader in web application development and management solutions. The Aptana Studio product is a complete web development environment that supports key client-side and server-side web technologies and languages including Ruby, Rails, Python, PHP, HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Aptana Studio has been wildly successful and has been downloaded more than 5,000,000 times. Based in San Mateo, California, Aptana is backed by leading venture investors Accel Partners & Rembrandt Venture Partners. .

Harvest

is a web-based service that let's you track time, log expenses, and invoice clients all in one streamlined application. Simple and intuitive to use, you will be up and running with Harvest in minutes. Visual reporting shows you the health of your operation at-a-glance while providing drill down capability for detailed analysis. Used by today's top service professionals, Harvest is the ideal tool for managing a small business.

Blue Box Group

At , we are experts in providing customized, scalable hosting solutions for your site. Whether you're solving issues with your large Ruby on Rails deployment or simply needing a reliable provider for your app, our expert support team will be there for you 24 hours a day

Chargify

simplifies recurring billing for Web 2.0 and SaaS companies. Build innovative web applications without worrying how to bill your customers. Whether you're a start up or an established business billing thousands of customers a month, Chargify works for you.

Our real-time dashboard makes it easy to access customer insight, revenue, signups, and cancellations. Increase revenue and optimize conversions by testing different subscription plans and freemium pricing models. With Chargify's business intelligence tools, you'll make informed decisions and focus on what's important - your company's growth.

Chargify works with multiple payment gateways so you can be confident you're PCI compliant and billing securely. Start accepting payments in minutes with a branded payment page or integrate our API into your existing site.

Get started for FREE with no set up or transaction fees, and no contracts to sign. Chargify your business today.

JetBrains

delivers intelligent software solutions that make developers more productive by simplifying the challenging tasks, automating the routine ones and developing the best development practices. We are creating developer tools for Java, .NET, Python, PHP, and Ruby/Rails.

—Ruby and Rails IDE providing the complete tool-set for productive web development with Ruby on Rails: intelligent editor, graphical debugger and test runner, plus out-of-the-box integration with popular VCS, tools and frameworks.

RubyMine is free for open source development and for educational institutions. Try RubyMine at jetbrains.com/ruby and .

Puppet Labs

Based in Portland, Oregon, provides next-gen IT automation, enabling IT organizations to manage infrastructure as code so they can provide higher service levels with less staff. Puppet Lab’s flagship offering, Puppet, significantly improves the automation and management of IT operations for large scale, fast growing, transaction-driven businesses, which are facing unprecedented cost pressures, reduced headcount, and increased support demands. Puppet’s knowledge-based approach creates an audit trail that delivers a new level of transparency so that IT teams can implement change more consistently, accurately and rapidly over the lifecycle of the systems. For more information, please visit .

Cubox

Cubox specializes in building web applications using agile technologies, and is damn good at it. We have a team that stands out among developers because not only do we guaranty the best test/behavior results, we excel in pair programming, making each minute we are at work worth double.

We focus primarily on developing with Ruby on Rails but we also use associated technologies, making sure that the end product meets the needs of our clients, and adjusting technologies to the use we require. We offer the perfect balance between excellent results and fast results. Our motto is to work with the client, and not just for the client, ensuring this way that we give our full in every project we embrace.