Do you know your way around the Rails? Are you looking for work working with Rails? This is your page. Rails has a commercial ecosystem growing at steam speed and the opportunities to land contract or full-time employment has never been better. h2. Developers for hire * *JeremyKemper* has been "building web apps":http://bitsweat.net with Rails since its creation and is a regular contributor to the core framework. Jeremy is a freelance web application developer available for remote consultancy and on-site work in Portland, Oregon. * "Ionist":http://ioni.st is the Rails shop of core developers *MarcelMolinaJr* and *SamStephenson*. Marcel is the co-author of the upcoming _Pragmatic Rails Recipes_ along with "Scott Barron":http://scott.elitists.net, published by the Pragmatic Programmers and Sam is the author the "Prototype":http://prototype.conio.net Javascript library, which is the core of the Rails *Ajax* implementation. * *NicholasSeckar* is one of Rails' core developers, and is looking work as a freelance Rails developer in the area of Toronto, Ontario or remotely. * *Lucas Carlson* ("blog":http://tech.rufy.com/ , lucas@rufy.com) has done extensive web site development (about a dozen sites) with Rails including "Print Promotion":http://printpromotion.com "Web Collaborator":http://webcollaborator.com/ "The Conjuring Cabaret":http://magic.rufy.com/ and "S5 Presents":http://s5presents.com/ and worked with "Adaptive Path":http://adaptivepath.com and "O'Reilly":http://oreilly.com/ on Rails projects. He lives in Portland, Oregon and is available for consulting, training, presentations, as well as full development, especially for eCommerce sites. * *Dave Steinberg* is a Ruby developer who has contributed several patches to ActiveRecord fixing support for the PostgreSQL database, and is in the process of developing a production app to replace an ASP management console for a company teaching soccer to kids. Dave is available for on-site work around the New York-Metropolitan area. Contact dave@steinbergcomputing.com. * *[[Demetrius Nunes]]* is a brazilian developer who used Ruby on Rails to develop his masters degree thesis combining Rails and semantic web technologies at "PUC-Rio":http://www.puc-rio.br. He works as the chief software architect at "Interface TI":http://www.interface-ti.com.br * *[[Gregg Pollack]]* is an experienced web applications programmer based in Orlando, Florida and is always looking for local or remote work for his company "Patched Software":http://www.PatchedSoftware.com * *Berndt Jung* is a student at San Francisco State University. He has just started developing web application via rails, and wants to stay true to both Ruby and rails. Example(s) "Community Blog":http://weblog.berndtj.staticcling.org/ * *Gokhan Arli* is a professional software developer located in The Netherlands. He has been developing web applications with Perl, php, asp. But since he met Rails, he only developes with RubyOnRails. He developed 2 websites and working on 1 more. Example(s) "Antique":http://www.mijnantiek.nl/ and "Dersilanlari":http://dersilanlari.com/ , you can contact and see more of his portfolio at "Sylow":http://www.sylow.net * *[[Robby Russell]]*: ("RobbyOnRails":http://www.robbyonrails.com/ , robby@planetargon.com) Freelance web-developer out of Portland, Oregon. Specializing in PostgreSQL-based applications. Owner of "PLANET ARGON":http://www.planetargon.com/ and creator of "RubyURL":http://rubyurl.com/ and contributed to the Typo project for PostgreSQL support. Currently writing a Ruby on Rails book for O'Reilly. * *ScottRaymond*: is a Rails contributor and has been developing professional web applications for nine years, with clients ranging from small nonprofits to Fortune 100 multinationals. He is conversant with a wide swath of technologies, but for new development prefers Rails. More details can be had from "his resume":http://scottraymond.net/forhire/ or from sco@scottraymond.net. * "Scott Barron":http://scott.elitists.net has been building web applications with Rails since its initial public release. He is a regular contributor to the Rails core and has written over a dozen Rails applications of varying sizes. Contact via email at scott@elitists.net. * *MattMcCray* has been building web applications for ten years and is a contributor to Rails (most recently worked on the updated AJAX support in 0.11.1). Creator of "taskTHIS!":http://taskthis.darthapo.com, Matt is interested in pursuing Rails specific work, he's located in Dallas, TX. * "*Johan Sörensen*":http://johansorensen.com/ lives for creating better experiences for everyone. I'm a free-range code muncher and graphic utilizer located in Sweden and is looking for interesting projects. I've been rolling on the Rails since September 2004. * "*Justin French*":http://justinfrench.com has expertise in custom built Content Management Systems for web based publications built on the Rails platform. * *Shalev \NessAiver* is a ruby programmer seeking a Ruby/RubyOnRails intership. Contact is shalev at simplyphysics d0t com. * *[[LeeO|Lee O'Mara]]* is a Toronto area programmer/web generalist who has experience working on Rails based applications and CMS(content management system) systems. * "*David Morton*":http://www.dgrmm.net/resumes/DGM_Resume.doc is a ruby/php/perl programmer in Emporia, KS with web application experience in each. Currently involved in ajax rails development and "Maia Mailguard":http://www.maiamailguard.com (unfortunately, still in php, but I'm looking to change that!) * *JoeHosteny* is a Ruby/Python/C++ programmer in Pittsburgh, PA, who contributed an extended login generator (Salted Hash Login Generator) based on Tobias Luetke's login generator. Currently developing a Rails based aviation logbook. * *[[unquiet|Jacob Stetser]]* programmed in PHP, Python and Java before finding this jewel in the rough. He's currently working on a "supr-sekret" Rails project of his own (codename: Pony) and investigating a few improvement ideas for the Rails Ajax support. He currently lives on Maui. * "*Toby Sterrett*":http://www.120decibel.com is a full-time web developer in southern CA who has been designing and building dynamic sites for the past 8 years. Recently completed his first "big rails-based client site":http://www.nationwidespeakers.com and is looking to work exclusively in rails from here on out. * "*\McClain Looney*":http://www.loonsoft.com Free-Range Rails & Java developer in the Bay area. * *RyanCarver* is a "designer/developer":http://www.fivesevensix.com/about in Portland, Oregon. He is up for just about anything whether it's design, consultation or development... as long as it's in Rails. Ryan regularly contributes features and fixes to the framework, and keeps a blog at "fivesevensix.com":http://www.fivesevensix.com. * "*Ioan Bizau*":http://ib.stalker.ro is a young-but-experienced .NET developer who wants to do some serious stuff in Rails. * "*Josh Purinton*":http://josh.purinton.org/josh-purinton-resume.html wrote a 1000-LOC DHCP management application in Rails for a broadband ISP in early 2005. Allocates addresses, controls Microsoft DHCP server, and interacts with Cisco UBR using Expect. 1:1 code/test ratio. * "*Brian Hennessey*":http://hennesseyconsulting.com is a developer who has utilized soap4r, PostgreSQL, and related technologies in recent web applications. * "*Anatol Pomozov*":http://belus.of.by/~userarea/resume.htm is a Russia based web developer and has more than 5 years experience in developing enterprise apps with Java. He is active developer of 2 opensource projects: "mvnFoum":http://sf.net/projects/mvnforum and "XDoclet2":http://sf.net/projects/xdoclet-plugins . Recently he has fallen in love with Ruby and RubyOnRails and would like to take part in application development using RoR. So there's a bug in Instiki that prevents very long bullet lists. This break allows the list to work as expected. Remove this paragraph and all the formatting will go away. * *[[Philip Gatt]]* is a California based developer with over 10 years of professional web development experience. He has extensive experience developing large scale applications, handling over a million users daily. After years of J2EE development, he has fallen in love with Rails. * "*Ralf Wirdemann*":http://www.b-simple.de is a software developer from Hamburg/Germany. He has extensive Rails and J2EE development experience, got one commercial Rails-App online and is the co-author of the german rails book targeted for late 2005. * "*Michael Buffington*":http://www.michaelbuffington.com is based in Portland, Oregon and has been developing web applications for ten years. Michael's most recent Rails application is "wordphoto.org":http://wordphoto.org. * "*Jakob Skjerning*":http://mentalized.net is an applications developer / designer with 5 years of professional experience doing websites and applications. * "*Doug Alcorn*":http://lathi.net is a professional programmer with over 10 years experience and more than 5 in web application development. See also DougAlcorn. * "*Ryan Currie*":http://www.digibliss.com is a young professional web application and system administrator for contract or hire. Over 4 years experience with PHP/MySQL, strong Ruby on Rails knowledge. Experienced in managing UNIX/Linux systems. Contact me at ryan@digibliss.com * "*Jason Long*":http://www.blackantmedia.com is an Ohio-based developer with nearly 10 years of professional software and web development experience. Strong visual and interface skills. Contact me via "Black Ant Media":http://www.blackantmedia.com **%{color:red}Jmreddy%** is an Indian Software Developer has 1 year experience on Ruby Rails .Good at Java, C#.NET ASP.NET,VC++.MFC,Perl,XML,XUL,Java Script and Latest AJAX technology. Have teamSize of 4 having 1 year experience on Ruby Rails. Looking for projects for maintenance,support and Development. Contact me at jmreddy.ch@gmail.com * "topfunky corporation":http://topfunky.com is a Seattle-based development shop specializing in easy-to-use websites that do useful work. Check out our "website":http://topfunky.com and "Ajax-powered notes":http://notes.topfunky.com. Several Rails apps are currently in development. * "*Primalgrasp*":http://primalgrasp.com is the Rails shop of *DeeZsombor* and *Biro Eszter*. We are following RoR with great interest since autumn 2004, and have contributed patches to clearest and most expressive web framework we have yet encountered. *Full Name: Two-line description with link to CV, demo applications, contributions made to Rails, and experience with Ruby and Rails. h2. Designers for hire * "*Chris Boone*":http://hypsometry.com/ designs and builds websites, specializing in easy-to-use, elegant (X)HTML and CSS. "The uvList,":http://uvlist.org/ a free local classifieds application, is his increasingly popular public Rails project. :: "hypsometry.com":http://hypsometry.com/ * "*Ramin Bozorgzadeh*":http://www.getintothis.com/blog/mywork/ is a full-time web developer specializing in UI design, xHTML/CSS layouts, Javascript, Flash, JSP and now hopefully Ruby/Rails. * "*Scott Becker*":http://www.electrointeractive.com/ designs and builds web sites and Applications. Many years of experience with (X)HTML, CSS, Javascript, Flash, Cold Fusion & .NET. Currently fascinated with Ruby on Rails. * "*Jason Lynes*":http://www.jasonlynes.com/ makes clients happy with standards-driven, droppit-like-its-hot, customer-pleasing, Basecamp-managed, riding-on-Rails websites. "www.jasonlynes.com":http://www.jasonlynes.com * "*Justin Palmer*":http://www.encytemedia.com - Designer and frontend architect focused on clean, usable, and innovative interfaces. Designer behind "Typo":http://typo.leetsoft.com and "script.aculo.us":http://script.aculo.us contributor. * *Full Name*: Two-line description with link to CV, demo websites, portfolio, etc. h2. Hiring an established firm If you're looking to get your application done with Rails, you might also consider going with a firm that already has the expertise in-house. See CommercialSupport.