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We started dabbling in Ruby on Rails in its early days in 2006 when we had not even formally launched BetterLabs. We fell in love with Rails like everyone else but had a steep challenge. Barely any of the developers we interviewed in India/Pune knew about Rails and the ones who had heard about it knew nothing about Ruby. Our love for Rails was greater than the challenge ahead of us and we decided to pursue it anyway. We convinced our initial core team of PHP developers to move to Rails and started our journey of creating innovative consumer and business web applications with Ruby on Rails. We put up a 1 pager website mainly to make sure that the new developers we interview don’t feel that the company doesn’t even have a website. And soon enough the power of Google was at play with a number of inbound inquiries for Rails development. We weren’t interested in services and hence kept saying no and recommending other companies we knew. A few weeks into this in 2006 I just posted a list of companies and developers I knew of for Ruby on Rails in India and that one post had been bringing traffic and inquiries to all the developers mentioned… until my initial blog webvapors went defunct for lack of time on my end.

That one blog post was the early peek at Rails in India and everyone who emailed us or contacted us pointed back to it as their source. That was pretty cool, I thought. I wish I kept up with that and let the Google juice build up Today, I don’t think there is a need for that or similar posts as you can find a lot of directories like working with rails which lists companies as well as freelancers in India who are developing in Rails. The quality of code and attention to detail are unknown though, may be that is where we need people to share their experiences. I’d say amongst the ones I know or know of, here is a short list of Ruby on Rails development companies in India that I’d recommend.

• BetterLabs, ofcourse which is my company, but focused solely on early stage product incubation.
• Talentica Software
• Blue Whale Labs
• MangoSpring
• SlideShare / Uzanto, though I don’t believe they do any services at all.
• Vinsol

If you know of good Ruby on Rails development companies that you have had experience with, please post in the comments and I will make sure and update the list.