Hi Everyone! My name is Ben and I have been working with Ruby and Rails for about 5 years now. I also foster-rescue for http://secondchancedogrescue.org. If you visit this website, you will find that it is outdated, and has a few bad problems. For instance, there is no dedicated URL for a dog (the dog images / profiles are served up in a modal). This rescue organization is really great, so it is a shame that the website is lacking.
I am looking for a volunteer or two who would be willing to help create a new Rails version of their website. If you are new to Rails or new to Rails 3.1, that is OK (especially if you have design/front-end skills), and it might be a good way to learn about Rails. This will be my 3rd Rails 3.1 application, so I can show you some of the ropes. And I'm sure I will learn something as well. ** I need advice about a CMS library/gem for Rails. I have used Refinery before, but I felt it was a bit bloated for what I needed. Can someone recommend a good light-weight CMS gem ? Even if you do not want to volunteer, please feel free to reply. I'm thinking, we use this stack: Rails 3.1 Heroku Hosted - Cedar Stack <TBD - Some CMS gem> Devise ActiveAdmin CarrierWave Haml and Sass Memcached PostgresSQL Amazon s3 for file storage other cool goodies We will basically be making it easy to add and display doggies! They currently use an api driven database maintained by rescuegroups.org - this connects with other sites that display dog info also. A secondary goal would be to create a backend for foster / volunteer people to communicate and volunteer for various events. This is strictly volunteer work for a great cause! I think we could make a big impact here -- there is LOTS of room for improvement to their existing site. I was hoping to just work a few hours per week on this project. I think with at least one other dev and one designer, we can make this happen. If you know someone who is not on this Ruby list who might be interested, please forward the message along. Cheers Ben -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby
