Hi Peter,
I have some experience with Cucumber but I prefer RSpec/Capybara.
I have played with OmniAuth and Devise a bit. I like Mongoid and
MongoDB for No SQL schema less data store. I know some JQuery, CSS,
and HTML5. I am very good with Ruby, Git and Linux in general. I was
wondering if you can throw me a bone :). I am willing to work for you
part time at no cost in order to get real rails experience. Once I
prove my worthiness then you may like to subcontract part of your
projects to me. Once we have a solid business relationship then I will
dump my day job and work with you full time. In any case I appreciate
your detailed input. It was a pleasure conversing with you. I wish you
more success.
Thanks so much,
Alex
On Apr 11, 11:14 pm, Peter Bell <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Apr 11, 2011, at 8:29 PM, xyz wrote:
>
> > Is there enough business for one man operations out there?
>
> There is a *huge* amount of business out there. I do Java, Groovy/Grails, C#,
> ColdFusion and Python and I'm pretty well known in the Groovy and Java
> communities as I speak at a bunch of conferences, but these days most of my
> projects are in Ruby/Rails and I'm turning down projects on a regular basis.
>
> It always helps if you have good client communication skills, know agile
> processes (kanban, scrum, lean, etc), understand best practices for
> requirements and estimation and do a good job of managing your projects. It's
> a real bonus if you understand architecting for scale, know about NoSQL data
> stores, and have a handle on writing APIs for mobile and are at least
> proficient with jQuery, CSS and HTML5. It's nice if you have a good testing
> story and are comfortable with cucumber, capybara, factory_girl, rspec and
> vcr with fakeweb, and you want to be competent with the really common gems -
> Devise, Cancan, OmniAuth, Paperclip, etc. And ideally you'll have a
> craftsmans feel for good naming, separation of concerns, open/closed classes
> and API design.
>
> But honestly, if you've finished Rails for Zombies, don't swear at your
> clients (unless they deserve it :) ) and can almost hold a conversation
> you'll probably be overloaded with work.
>
> Best Wishes,
> Peter
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