Are you Just a Rails or a Jack of All Trades Company?

[Myles Braithwaite]

Hi, I was wondering how many people on this list just develop in Rails and nothing else?

MiyS is pretty much anything at this point but I am trying to streamline it into being just one or two programming languages.

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Myles A. Braithwaite

Monkey in your Soul - http://miys.net

my...@monkeyinyoursoul.com

[Mitch Pirtle]

On Jul 27, 2007, at 14:21 , Myles Braithwaite wrote:

Hi, I was wondering how many people on this list just develop in Rails and nothing else?

MiyS is pretty much anything at this point but I am trying to streamline it into being just one or two programming languages.

We started out as a Perl/Python/Zope/Plone shop, and slowly migrated to PHP and either MySQL or PostgreSQL due to demand. However, the more time we spend in Rails, the less interest we have in PHP ;-)

It would not surprise me to see a day where all we did was Rails work, especially with the demand out there. It does seem though that both Rails and PHP are severely understaffed at the moment, so we get to cherry-pick for now.

-- Mitch

[Winston Tsang]

We focus on Ruby/Rails jobs, but if a job requires other skills as a
part, but not the majority, of the job, it's not a problem.

Having said that, all our jobs are done in Ruby/Rails as that's what we prefer.

Winston Tsang
Radberry, LLC

[snacktime]

On 7/27/07, Winston Tsang <goodco...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> We focus on Ruby/Rails jobs, but if a job requires other skills as a
> part, but not the majority, of the job, it's not a problem.
>
> Having said that, all our jobs are done in Ruby/Rails as that's what we prefer.
>

Ditto. If I'm going to make my money doing development, then I want
to do it in something I really enjoy.

Chris

[Michael D. Ivey]

On Jul 27, 2007, at 1:21 PM, Myles Braithwaite wrote:
> Hi, I was wondering how many people on this list just develop in
> Rails and nothing else?

I only work in Ruby right now. Nothing else is fun.

I'd consider gigs in other languages if they sounded fun, but I will
almost certainly never program professionally in Perl or Java again.

[Wes Gamble]

I'm primarily doing Rails, although I did end up taking a small bit of
Java work during a lull in projects (which is probably the only reason I
would take Java work moving forward).

> my...@monkeyinyoursoul.com <mailto:my...@monkeyinyoursoul.com>
>
>

[Raul Murciano]

Myles Braithwaite escribió:

> Hi, I was wondering how many people on this list just develop in Rails
> and nothing else?
>
> MiyS is pretty much anything at this point but I am trying to streamline
> it into being just one or two programming languages.

I like that approach for a small company: focusing on a fistfull of
complementaries technologies - as funniest as possible, like Chris
pointed out! :)

Greetings,
Raul Murciano

[Tim Case]

My business model is based on getting clients to market as quickly as
possible, therefore I use, guess what? Rails.

[Agustin]

We use in each project what we think is better on each situation.

But, in the last year all our projects have use Rails ;-)

Regards.

PS We are one year old.

[David]

I do work in Ruby (mostly Rails), Java and some .NET here and there. 

 

I'd love to be able to dump .NET and Java, but right now, I'm not finding enough Rails work yet to say bye to Java.  That's mostly because I'm new to the market (just went out on my own this year) and new to Rails (just started using it seriously this year).  I try to steer most projects to Rails, but it isn't the right fit for everything (almost, but not quite:)

 

 

 

 

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- Integrity First Software, Inc.

- David.L...@GMail.com

 

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On 7/27/07, Myles Braithwaite <my...@monkeyinyoursoul.com> wrote:

[Robby Russell]

On Jul 27, 2007, at 11:21 AM, Myles Braithwaite wrote:

> Hi, I was wondering how many people on this list just develop in
> Rails and nothing else?
>
> MiyS is pretty much anything at this point but I am trying to
> streamline it into being just one or two programming languages.

Professionally? Exclusively Rails since March of 2005!

--
Robby Russell
Founder and Executive Director

PLANET ARGON, LLC
Design, Development, and Hosting with Ruby on Rails

http://www.planetargon.com/
http://www.robbyonrails.com/

+1 503 445 2457
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[Damien McKenna]

On Jul 27, 2007, at 2:21 PM, Myles Braithwaite wrote:
> Hi, I was wondering how many people on this list just develop in
> Rails and nothing else?

Rails, ColdFusion, PHP, in order of preference; unfortunately most of
the consulting work in these here parts is PHP. The more I use Rails
the less I want to use the others, but there are a few things I like
in ColdFusion and a few in PHP that haven't been ported/reproduced.

--
Damien McKenna - Husband, father, geek.
dam...@mc-kenna.com - http://www.mc-kenna.com/

[Jeff Barczewski]

On 7/28/07, Damien McKenna <dam...@mc-kenna.com> wrote:

On Jul 27, 2007, at 2:21 PM, Myles Braithwaite wrote:
> Hi, I was wondering how many people on this list just develop in
> Rails and nothing else?

Although I work on some legacy projects in Java and JRuby, we are only doing Ruby on Rails training and consulting for all new business.

--
Jeff Barczewski, MasterView core team
Inspired Horizons Ruby on Rails Training and Consultancy
http://inspiredhorizons.com/

[Diego Lapiduz]

Same here. Rails for all new projects and some PHP legacy.

To be truthful I don't know anybody who has moved away from Rails once he started.

_____________________

Diego Lapiduz

Sinai IT

dl...@sinai.com.ar

[Jade Meskill]

On 7/27/07, Myles Braithwaite <my...@monkeyinyoursoul.com> wrote:

> Hi, I was wondering how many people on this list just develop in Rails and
> nothing else?
>

We at integrum are strictly a Ruby/Rails shop. We started out as a
"we'll do just about anything for money" kind of a consultancy but
last year decided to go strictly Rails. There is some danger in
focusing exclusively on one platform but it does allow you to become
experts and maintain a laser-like focus.

Jade Meskill <ja...@integrumtech.com>
Integrum Technologies, LLC

[Benjamin Curtis]

I, too, only do Ruby and Rails (for my development projects). But
then, I've been a Rails-only developer longer than I've been a
freelancer. :)

--
Benjamin Curtis
http://www.bencurtis.com/ -- blog
http://catchthebest.com/ -- hiring tools for your team