Hi All, It's been a little more than 2 years since I first started working with Ruby on Rails. At that time, I was out of work and looking to get involved with development rather than infrastructure. Lo and behold, the Ruby language and the Rails framework was something that held a lot of interest to me. Being out of work at the time, I read several books over a weeks time and started my first reborn project that culminated from years of working with statistics for college football in a PHP driven site. In 2 to 3 months, I had my first rails 2.x production site going and it was a solid success.
Today I look back at what I accomplished and what I have built today and would like to showcase both production sites that I now work solely on. I am the sole developer, creator, administrator, and owner of these sites and they were built with Ruby 1.9.2 and Rails 3.0.10. http://nflstatpages.com http://ncaastatpages.com (this was my first rails production site) Both sites use html5, no flash, jquery, jquery mobile, and some custom components I built on my own. They are also fully integrated with oauth and have applications built in facebook, twitter, and I'm now working on a google plus variant. In addition, I built a zong api framework to handle mobile phone payments and was pleasantly surprised when paypal ended up purchasing them. I didn't want to promote my sites (even though football season is right around the corner), but I wanted to show others that if you have an idea, maintain drive, put effort into everything you do each day, you can become successful. I now work as an infrastructure and systems administrator for a high profile company on my normal time, and continue to build my stats sites on my spare time. The sites I've built are valued right now at about a quarter of a million dollars and continue to grow. The total operating expenses are less than $5k per year for both combined. It doesn't take much to work on a successful project so long as you have a tangible idea that is worth investing in. I'm hoping that in 3 to 5 years I'll be able to fully leave my job and work 100% on my sites, competing with Accuscore who I've successfully beaten in straight predictions going on 2 years now. Take care and happy coding. I believe in ideas and success. I hope you do too. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
