Rails is an open source framework that doesn't by default come with any commercial support. What you see is what you get. But if you would like to jump-start your development team on Rails, you could do a lot worse than hiring one of the firms below. h2. Consultants * "Florian Weber":http://florian.structbench.com is a freelance software developer and active contributor to Rails. He has worked for numerous big international clients such as Vodafone, Nivea, Mini/BMW, Greenpeace, Universal Music, Sony, and Saturn. He is interested in consulting and development work. * "Norrix":http://www.norrix.com is the consultancy firm of Warren Brian Noronha aka. wnorrix. We are using Rails as our main development platform. We also pick up projects in Drupal. * "Hans Friedrich Consulting":http://www.hansfriedrich.com is a Brain For Hire one-man-band near Portland, OR. Hans is still taking on some PHP projects, but encourages all of his new clients to look at Rails as a great low-overhead development option. He is using his design and coding experience to build web applications for small to medium-size businesses. * "Atomic Object":http://atomicobject.com is a custom software and consulting company based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. We have been a practicing extreme programming shop since our beginning in 2000. We have a handful of active rubyists on board and have recently converted our CMS software aLive from Cocoon to Rails. * "Leetsoft":http://www.leetsoft.com is an Ottawa, Canada based consulting firm run by TobiasLuetke. Tobi has been working on web-applications since the web became dynamic and has dedicated himself to rails development almost since rails was released. As a frequent contributer to the rails source, he has become very familiar with its internals, reflected in various open source applications which he has released. "Hieraki":http://www.hieraki.org and Planet were both developed by him as well as the rails powered e-commerce platform which can be seen at "www.snowdevil.ca":http://www.snowdevil.ca. Tobi is available for consulting, tutorial and workshop sessions at fair rates in Canadian dollars. * "ionami design":http://www.ionami.com is a web design and development agency based in San Francisco, CA. We are currently taking beta customers for Rails development. * "Collaboraid":http://www.collaboraid.biz has developed web applications for MIT, Greenpeace International, and others. We are currently building an intranet for a large NGO on Rails. * "Niveon Technology":http://www.niveon.com is the wild child of Jorgen Hahn (see: [[Hari Seldon]]), a Rails aficionado and "best-practices" fiend. He's currently looking for opportunities to develop awe-inspiring standard-compliant web-applications. * "Primalgrasp":http://primalgrasp.com by Biro Eszter and "Dee Zsombor":http://deezsombor.blogspot.com is a team of highly skilled software developers, building practical solutions tailored to your needs. We believe in active community participation: sharing will make all of us stronger. * At "Fingertips":http://fngtps.com we design and develop web sites and internet applications. Although we still do some Python and PHP work, we prefer to build new projects with Ruby on Rails. * "Steinberg Computing":http://www.steinbergcomputing.com/ is the formal business entity run by Dave Steinberg. Specializing in rapid development with Rails, SC always strives for the most sublime solution to problems in technology. SC also offers customizable hosting services via our "GeekISP":http://www.geekisp.com/ products. * "Interface TI":http://www.interface-ti.com.br/ is the brazilian company where [[Demetrius Nunes]] (aka dema) works as the chief architect and software engineer/developer. Although he and his team has full enterprise software expertise using .NET, they now prefer developing new projects using Ruby on Rails, as it gives them superpowers for building web applications faster, better and cheaper. * "O'Design":http://www.odesign.fi is a Finnish webshop run by "Jarkko Laine":http://jlaine.net. We provide both Rails-based solutions and technical consultancy. * "Mike Clark":http://clarkware.com/cgi/blosxom offers consulting, training, mentoring, and custom Rails development through his company, "Clarkware Consulting":http://www.clarkware.com, based in Denver, CO. Using his extensive experience with Java and J2EE, he'll help you understand the benefits Rails can offer your project and, when appropriate, help you pragmatically migrate your J2EE project to Rails. * "Free Range Data":http://www.freerangedata.com/pages/specialties prefers riding the Rails over walking through the muck that covers much of the enterprise systems landscape. Our vast experience with the traditional architectures whose bloat lead to the Rails revolution has made us very appreciative of what Rails has to offer. We love to provide new development, refactoring, and strategic consulting services featuring Rails. * MuraveyLabs: Russian Web-development company provides various Ruby on Rails services for a reasonable rate * "PLANET ARGON":http://www.planetargon.com/ provides custom development services for Rails with a strong emphasis in PostgreSQL database-driven systems. PLANET ARGON is currently working with a few clients on PHP to Rails and .NET to Rails migrations. * "Futuremint":http://www.futuremint.com/ is Dave Woodward's company that offers Rails-based custom application development. Current projects consist of an appointment management application and a magazine publishing tool. * "ThoughtWorks":http://www.thoughtworks.com is a worldwide leader in agile software development and has many consultants available who like to talk about Ruby. "Ruby at ThoughtWorks":http://opensource.thoughtworks.com/projects/ruby.jsp * "EastMedia":http://www.eastmedia.com - A Web Design and Development firm based in New York City, offering full-scale development, hosting and consulting services for new Rails development and migration from existing architectures. * "The Velocipedist":http://velocipedist.com/ is a Chicago-based web development concern focused on small- to medium-sized applications for content management, multimedia publishing, e-commerce and whatever else floats your boat. In addition to Ruby on Rails and PHP-MySQL development platforms, we're big fans of standards-based, accessible design paired with usability so solid your grandmother will get it. For more information visit our website or e-mail contact@velocipedist.net. * "*Redgreenblu*":http://www.redgreenblu.com - The consultancy of Scott Raymond, who has been developing professional web applications for ten years. Redgreenblu focuses solely on Rails development, and obsessive excellence therein. Most recently, RGB developed Blinksale.com, the easiest way to send invoices online. Get in touch for work samples or to talk about your project. * "LAAGA Limited":http://www.laaga.com/ provides development services for Rails in Hong Kong and China. We have a strong emphasis on both Internet and Mobile applications using Rails, we particularly excel in Entertainment Industry, we also welcome other industries who are interested in applying Rails applications to their systems. Contact David Wong at david@laaga.com for more details. * "turing":http://www.turingstudio.com/ is a media production company: we do web applications, ui design, film & video production, dvd design/authoring/encoding and brand work. We're busy migrating all of the good ideas from "binarycloud":http://www.binarycloud.com to rails. * "Web Style Media":http://www.webstylemedia.com - Web Style Media, LLC offers Web Design and Web Development in Ruby, Perl, PHP, ASP and others languages, CPA and PPC Internet Marketing, Search Engines Optimisation (SEO) and Promotion, Internet Advertising services. * "80beans":http://www.80beans.com/ is an application development firm based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The focus used to be completely on Java (Spring/Hibernate), but Ruby on Rails has been a part of the toolkit for a while now and it's being used for most new web projects nowadays. Hosting is optionally included for application development clients. (The site is written in dutch at the moment, email at "info@80beans.com":mailto:info@80beans.com for more info). * "HighGroove Studios":http://www.highgroove.com/ develops powerful applications and elegantly simple interfaces using the Ruby on Rails framework. Also experienced with J2EE. Based in Atlanta, GA. * "inlet media":http://www.inlet-media.de - based in Hamburg, Germany - has Rails experts and some real world Rails applications online. Contact Norman Timmler, who can tell you something about the development of "bellybutton":http://www.bellybutton.de one of the first shops made with Rails. * "*Sus4*":http://sus4.net - has Rails, PHP, Interchange, and Perl experts. Focuses on delivering custom web applications tailored to the clients needs. * "*AgileEvolved*":http://www.agileevolved.com develops and manages state of the art web applications. We use a customer centric approach to development and are heavily into Agile methods. We focus primarily on Ruby on Rails, but also offer Java application development as well. Oh and we're based in the UK. * "*Pharm2Phork Project*":http://www.pharm2phork.org provides consulting and development services to Agricultural oriented companies requiring web based applications. We specialise in design and development of systems to assist in compliance with EU178/2005 regulations. * _Do you have the experience to offer commercial support for Rails? Add your company here_ See also the HostingFirms page for a place to put your Rails application.