Working With Rails is an attempt to index all the developers around the world working with Rails. It offers a few ways to browse the index and while the authority and popularity lists are perhaps a tad silly, I love looking at the country list. 3 programmers in Peru, 1 in Kazakhstan, and 3 in Uzbekistan. How cool is that?
We’re going to start posting a summary of recent Rails job postings from the 37signals Job Board every few weeks. All of these positions are for Rails programmers, but be sure to click through for individual listings on the additional requirements:
If you’re looking for Rails programmers, you can post a listing at the 37signals Job Board. The price is $250 for 30 days of air time.
The Signal vs Noise Job Board is a new alternative for finding good programmers and designers to work on Rails projects (among other things). It puts your job pitch in front of the tens of thousands of people reading the Signal vs Noise weblog. It comes at a price of $250 for a posting of 500 words visible for 30 days.
CNET, Fleck, and NYTimes.com are all using it to advertise developers with Ruby and Rails experience. If you’re just looking for programming positions, you can subscribe to the RSS for the programming section.
As you might have noticed from the URLs, this job site is using the new Simply Restful plugin. Our playground for RESTful living on Rails.
One of the cool things we have done at jobster (we think) is to foster small teams which take on big projects in rapid cycles. Rails makes that possible. With 12 more devs, for instance, we would spin up 4 significant projects.So far Rails has indeed proven to be a great fit.
A team of three engineers tasked with prototyping a compelling consumer product in one month. They where given complete freedom to do what they wanted, and to build on top of whatever technology they chose. They chose ruby on rails, completed a successful prototype that will be pushed to our live site shortly. It was so successful that rails will be the technology that all our new consumer features will be built on.Maybe being on one of these teams sounds like a good fit for you. Check out what they are looking for.
In November, PlanetMoon launched Infected, a first-person shooter game for Playstation Portable. The PSP game has two-pieces, one, the actual PSP game (which is C++), and a statistics reporting tool (how many kills did you get, how many people did you infect, where in the world are they). Any time someone wants to grab their stats, it kicks in the PSP Web Browser, which points to a Ruby on Rails server. The team behind this is Jason Wong’s i5labs. Jason blogs about some of the challenges of working within the constraints of PSP console.
i5labs also just finished a Zubio chair massage kiosk at the San Francisco Shopping Center. You schedule 10 or 20 minute massage sessions using a touchscreen, then swipe your credit card. The touchscreen system is implemented with Rails. Jason shares details of the code and hardware.
i5labs is also looking to hire a part time Ruby on Rails developer (who could eventually go full time). If you’re interested drop them a note at jobs@i5labs.com.
We’ve seen the limits of Rails pushed before, when Mike Clark and James Duncan Davidson mixed Rails with Cocoa with VitalSource. Anyone else using Rails outside of the traditional web context?
Rick Olson is a friend of the core group, an accomplished extender of Rails, the driver behind Rails Weenie, and a great guy to boot. If you’re looking to hire someone with strong Rails skills, give Rick a look.
Sebastian Delmont from New York City is looking for 1-2 full-time (no telecommuting) Ruby on Rails developers for a new consumer-focused startup. Write him sd at notso.net. 3 Leaf Networks is looking for a single programmer in Santa Clare for work on another start-up in Rails.
Sam Stephenson and Marcel Molina are no longer available for custom consulting jobs through Ionist. Both are now “made men” of the 37signals syndicate. They will certainly continue to amuse us all through projectionist, though.
That restores the 37signals part of the Rails core to 1/3. Still down from 1/1 in January and 1/2 before going to a counsel of 12. But once again respectable ;)
We’re trying to get a sense of who and where people are doing commercial work with Rails. So is the framework paying at least a substantial part of your bills? Put your name on the list.
Marcel Molina and Sam Stephenson are both core developers of Rails and has been riding the express since the very first release of the framework. In that time, they’ve delivered countless Rails applications and of course contributed to the framework with both code, documentation, and spirit.
Ionist is their new company specializing in Ruby on Rails consulting and application development. If you’re looking to get a whole project done for you in Rails or already have a team that just needs some expert guidance, these guys are exactly what you’ve been looking for.
They’re currently accepting new projects, so hurry up. They blog at project.ion.ist.
Bank of America must surely be the archetypical corporate America company. The kind that puts the e, n, t, e, r, p, r, i, s, and e in Enterprise. Ruby on Rails is on their radar. An innocent job posting from Monster.com lists “Ruby (on Rails)” as a “Nice to Have”. Not too shabby, cabby. The technology adoptive curve is certainly getting compressed. The jump from early adopter to mainstream is growing shorter.
Another set of companies looking to hook up with Rails developers:
The commercial interest for using Rails is ever growing and I keep getting leads on new jobs. Here are the latest three openings:
David Siegel has been working on an interesting database for the structure of films:
Some people know me as a type designer, a web designer, an entrepreneur, author, or public speaker. Few people know that for the past 20 years i’ve been working on building a database of story structure information taken from popular Hollywood films. I now have an assistant, Kevin, and together we are cranking out the data. It’s a lot of work. Each film has a potential 3,000 data items associated with it. In the past two years, we have managed to complete 100 films. We are rolling now and hope to have 200 by the end of this 2005. We do all the data gathering in excel.
He’s looking to team up with one or more Railers on either pay or barter basis:
I am looking for people to help. I want to put the project on the right footing (i.e., Ruby on Rails) and work with good people to realize it. I am willing to pay, but I would love to find a group that will barter with me for my user-interface and design skills. I can help with client projects and bring a lot of credibility to any team doing web development work. If you are a group of good engineers/programmers/developers with big projects and you need a partner to help with design/interface issues, this would be a very good fit.
See more at his posting for the Story Structure Project.
I didn’t line them all up for this, I swear. But Rails positions are just emerging from everywhere. Today its the imminent podcasting venture know as Odeo that’s looking for another teammate:
Our main application uses Ruby on Rails, so either experience with that or the ability to learn quickly is required. However, more important requirements include: Extensive experience developing web applications, especially the back-end of high-scalability, consumer-oriented sites. Interest in joining a risky, by-the-seat-of-the-pants startup with minimal bennies, in exchange for tons of impact, minimal bureaucracy, and some decent upside potential.
Ruby on Rails was created by David Heinemeier Hansson, a partner at 37signals,
then extended and improved by a core team of committers and hundreds of open-source contributors.
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