My decade of Ruby at the UN

IFAD runs on a lot of things — PeopleSoft, Oracle, SharePoint, plus a Sybase from the year 2000 that, when I arrived, held a surprising amount of institutional memory. It also runs on Ruby — that&rsquo;s why I was there. I walked into the Rome offices in the spring of 2011 as a consultant on an agile team that didn&rsquo;t look or act like the rest of the place. The rest of the place was an…