I think the more balanced answer is that it depends on the context. Like others, I'm generally quite skeptical of certifications as a rule. In your case however, I think a certification may make a lot of sense.
As a newcomer and non-programmer, a certification gives a potential employer some minimum understanding of your skillset. This is especially useful if you happen to be bootstrapping your Ruby career, without any commercial experience. For a lot of the regulars in the Ruby community and particularly those of us with much more experience, any kind of certification is absolutely useless. As a community, we are in the interesting position where current demand for Ruby and Rails skills far exceeds supply. Therefore we need to not dismiss the concept of training or certification just because it doesn't suit us in our current position. I believe it is potentially useful for those coming into our industry and community. Josh On 21/02/2010, at 5:39 PM, Navin wrote: > Hello, > > As a newcomer to ruby and rails (and as someone working on > rejuvenating a career as a programmer) I am trying to establish how > the "Ruby Association Certified Ruby Programmer" accreditation (http:// > www.ruby-assn.org/en/certification.htm) is regarded by this > community. > > I am taking an online course with rubylearning.org (and finding it to > be somewhat useful) and following Michael Hartl's excellent Rails > Tutorial as he develops it (railstutorial.org) - also working through > the canonical textbooks on the subject ... Thought I would try and get > some feedback before considering the certification further. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
