Job site

[toy]

Hi mailing list,
I just created this site: http://Jobs.Rubynow.com to help people post
and find jobs related to ruby.
I built the site with rails and postgresql. The site is very clean and
simple, not too much fancy stuff, but it should get the job done.
I want to have the site be a resource to the ruby community. I
sincerely hope this site will be a useful tool for you all.
Sincerely,
Jason Toy

[James Edward Gray II]

How funny! You just stole the Ruby Quiz idea for tomorrow.

Well, hopefully we can generate some good ideas for you. I too have
a working site, for starters... ;)

James Edward Gray II

[James Edward Gray II]

On Sep 15, 2005, at 8:40 PM, toy wrote:

Suggestion: Would it be possible to make it so that we are only
notified about jobs in our area and/or telecomute positions by email?

James Edward Gray II

[Elliot Bowes]

Hi

I've been working on a jobs site based on Ruby on Rails for SAP
recruitment for about 2 months now (ported from a PHP application).
As an off-shoot of that project I've also been working on a jobs site
for programmers, including Ruby, which I hope to launch some time
soon.
The original PHP SAP site was written as part of my Master's Degree
with a team of 5 other developers in a project known as "Software Hut"
at the University of Sheffield (UK). The project is essentially a
competition between teams of developers to produce a solution to
meet the requirements of 1 client. We were encouraged to (and did) use
methodologies like Extreme Programming and Test Driven Development,
and were partially graded on our use of those. The entire application
ended up at around 20,000 lines of PHP, so it was pretty big (and that
was trying to follow DRY as much as we could).
The Ruby on Rails port (which will be the solution that gets used by
the client in the end) is at around 3000 lines of code at the moment,
with considerably more functionality and is much more maintainable.
I really wish we could have written it in RoR the first time round,
but firstly I hadn't heard of Rails back in December, and secondly
there would have been no-one that could have graded our code at the
University (at least not for that module, as we only had a choice of
PHP or Java).
Anyway, we ended up winning the competition and we're through to the
finals of an IBM run competition, which takes place at the end of this
month, as a result of it.
If there's any Ruby guys (or girls) that are going to the Thinkpad
Challenge in Southampton then I hope to see you there.

Elliot

[toy]

Wow, that really is weird.

I just saw the posting at rubyquiz. Although the site is not huge in functionality, it took me a lot longer than 15 minutes, because I spent a lot of time making sure things worked correctly. I also wrote a lot of unit tests, made sure the site worked on top of different databases, learned about FastCGI, setup caching. It was my first public rails site, so I tried to make sure everything was working ok. By the way, http://odeo.com has already posted a real job listing!!!!! You can see it at: http://jobs.rubynow.com

If anyone has other suggestions, please feel free to contact me.
Thanks.
Jason

On Sep 15, 2005, at 8:40 PM, toy wrote:

>>> Hi mailing list,
>>> I just created this site: http://Jobs.Rubynow.com to help people
>>> post and find jobs related to ruby.
>>> I built the site with rails and postgresql. The site is very clean
>>> and simple, not too much fancy stuff, but it should get the job done.
>>> I want to have the site be a resource to the ruby community. I
>>> sincerely hope this site will be a useful tool for you all.
>
>

>How funny! You just stole the Ruby Quiz idea for tomorrow.

[Daniel Berger]

toy wrote:
> It was my first public rails site,
> so I tried to make sure everything was working ok. By the way,
> http://odeo.com has already posted a real job listing!!!!! You can see
> it at: http://jobs.rubynow.com
>
> If anyone has other suggestions, please feel free to contact me.
> Thanks.
> Jason

I wouldn't mind seeing this added to the FAQ, i.e. "Where can I post
Ruby jobs listings?"

Regards,

Dan

[jaso...@gmail.com]

Dan, yeah, I think that is a good idea too. I'll see what I can do.

[jaso...@gmail.com]

Hopefully the site will have so many job listsings, that there will
definetely be a need to seperate the emails. For now though, I don't
think there will be enough postings for a while. I'll think about how
to implement it soon though. Thanks.

Jason

[James Edward Gray II]

On Sep 16, 2005, at 9:40 AM, toy wrote:

> If anyone has other suggestions, please feel free to contact me.

The skills and description sections of the job postings run too close
together. Can we get some padding or backgrounds/borders in there to
separate the elements?

James Edward Gray II