Are You A Rails Consultant? We're Hiring!

Although I can’t talk about what we’re doing publicly just yet, it’s safe for me to announce now that I’m making a move from Cold Fusion to Ruby on Rails for my future development projects.

I’m currently looking for Ruby on Rails developers (contact me greg AT sparkcard DOT com) that can take on several discrete projects. They’ll be working closely with me to convert databases, translate code from CF to Ruby, and to plan the future of the apps.

For my fellow CFers out there, I’ll simply say that I still love CF, but Rails Rocks. My CF code was written very similar to the way Rails works now so it made a lot of sense. We’re planning to open source at least one major part of our system and that’s going to require something that’s freely available unfortunately.

To add to my decision, I’ve spent the last year and half working at getting away from doing development and to focusing on turning my ideas into reality. Though I’ve always had the ability to code what I needed, that skill also served as a crutch in weird ways. I’m moving to Rails in many ways to guarantee that I can’t write the code - strange I know.

Most of my involvement will be architectural and on the front end as well - a skillset I feel invigorated by the recent buzz surrounding AJAX. It’s nice to see a community of people working to develop better systems in the browser.

More soon.