Wow! At least one nonprofit gets it! Housing Works is looking for a Ruby on Rails developer and they posted it on 37signals.com too!
Here’s a brief excerpt:
Looking for an individual or company who can help us put the finishing touches on our online Thrift Shop Point of Sale system built in Ruby on Rails. Would be looking for someone with extensive rails experience and experience with point of sale or e-commerce. Ideally this arrangement would also include some sort of second level support agreement where the company or individual could be called upon for bug fixes when the internal team is not available.
Those of you who know Housing Works here in the City should know that their cafe is frequented by many techies as well. They seem to be expressing my fear about RoR development by asking for a second level support agreement. I don’t know if they’ll get that since there are still very few RoR developers out there relative to the other languages. What’s funny though is that I’m not sure RoR would have been something I would have chosen for a Point of Sale system since up until version 1.2 RoR forced programmers to use a Float to represent money. This caused all sorts of hassles since this meant rounding errors. And no one wants to see rounding errors with their money. There were workarounds but it’s all been resolved.
Anyway, I wish Housing Works a lot of luck on their system. And I’m just super happy to see a social services based nonprofit follow the Ruby way!
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Does anyone have “extensive” RoR experience yet?
Yes, there are places. 37signals.com which is pretty much where RoR was born. It’ll grow over time. Take a look at http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm. Ruby is shooting up to the top of that chart very quickly. I wouldn’t be surprised if it overtook C# in a year or so.
I read your post and the comments and thought I would check out this new tech (well new to me at least). I am impressed. It looks really straight forward to use and provides you with so many shortcuts to speedy development.
Check out this for a quick intro:
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/01/20/rails.html?page=1
David
David Zeidman
Zeidman Development
http://www.zeidman.info
Yes, Curt Hibbs — that’s how I learned RoR too. I know that when I espouse RoR, I sometimes sound like a missionary proselytizing a new religion but talking about RoR, to me, is like 1993 for me when I kept telling people to get e-mail.
“Why do I need e-mail? Who would I talk to? Just you?”