Would appreciate your feedback if you or anyone you know might be interested in this project. Thanks!
http://beta.traveldragon.com needs a Ruby on Rails Developer immediately for a 20-40hr project to improve a search tool Traveldragon is the front-end to a massive collection of trips and tours from boutique tour operators around the world. Help us allow our customers to find these trips through a more useful search interface. You will work closely with a product manager and a UI designer/developer to implement fixes to our trips search engine that is only partially working at the moment and has many bugs. (The UI designer will handle the XHTML/CSS , some of the JQUERY , and the interaction design). We would like to make the search interface work in AJAX again (it used to) such that filtering results changes the displayed result set on the fly. The current sliders and filters are also not working properly/at all. We need good default search param values, the ability to return to a previous SERP page from a Trip detail page, and good 0-results handling (e.g. "No trips found for your search but we have 125 adventure trips in other parts of the world.") The homepage initial search will have 3 search criteria (params) and the full search results page would have these 3 plus 1 additional param. Effort will be needed to make sure free-text searches are looking at the right fields in the trips database (each trip has a combination of prose fields and keyword/tagging but we're not sure how this is weighted). Right now, you would be the only developer on this project although we have a small ROR shop that will be helping out when time permits. The dev site is currently hosted with this shop. The current product team has inherited a code base that is somewhat of a mystery. Part of your job (and what this ROR shop will eventually helps us with) will be to better understand what code we actually have, and what we might want to improve longer term. Traveldragon Platform Information: * We are on version 2.0.2 of ruby on rails. We are thinking it needs to but updated to at least version 2.2.2 or better yet version 2.3 given that engines are now supported in version 2.3. * It seems that its using ferret and the acts_as_ferret plugin for the text search. * We don’t know which plugins are being used and which ones aren’t. We believe that many of the plugins are actually custom “engine” plugins that a former developer created. To make matters more confusing many of those plugins contain plugins, often duplicating plugins that are already installed in other areas. We’ve counted at least 4 copies of attachment_fu, but we don’t know if that’s bad! Please respond with: * a short introduction and brief experience with web apps and our particular ROR platform information * your resume and references * your availability * Your hourly rate Contact: Kathy Dragon [email protected] -- Kathy Dragon Traveler Follow on Twitter: @KathyDragon & @TravelDragon http://www.TheDragonsPath.com http://www.activewomen.com Launching soon: http://traveldragon.com 2105 Mapleton Ave Boulder, CO 80304 -- Kathy Dragon Traveler Follow on Twitter: @KathyDragon & @TravelDragon http://www.TheDragonsPath.com http://www.activewomen.com Launching soon: http://traveldragon.com 2105 Mapleton Ave Boulder, CO 80304
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