Get a job where I can code in Ruby all day

It took some work, but I’ve been able to convince everyone here that Ruby is the right way. I’m so happy.

Need to start getting involved with the Ruby community again if I ever hope to achieve this goal. Maybe I should change this goal to that instead. It’s more immediate.

After picking up Ruby on Rails 2 months ago and falling in love, I stayed on the prowl and narrowed my job search exclusively to Ruby on Rails. A mention a few months prior (before I’d even started coding in it), to a friend who owned a web consulting firm, eventually bore fruit. Now we’ll just see how it goes!

I now work at Laika, Inc., where I write web applications in Arrow all day. I haven’t been this happy in years.

In April 2005, Pat Eyler started the Ruby Programming Shop (RPS). The RPS is focused on improving existing Ruby libraries and the initial project was r43, a Ruby wrapper for the 43 Things web service. I got heavily involved in the r43 project. I wrote so much code for r43 that I did a presentation on it for STL.rb.

Two people from Trade Harbor saw my presentation. Apparently it didn’t suck as bad as I thought because they recruited me to do some freelance work for their company. I worked on their stuff for a month then had to stop because the stresses of my day job had sapped my energy for programming when I got home.

When they called again, this time to hire me full time, it was like manna from heaven. I accepted without reservations and I am a happier person because of it. You see, before Trade Harbor, I wrote J2EE apps for Coventry Health Care. I was sick of J2EE. I was sick of Java. I was almost sick of programming entirely. Now, at Trade Harbor, I program in Ruby and all is well with the world.

We write in Ruby. We pair program and sometimes even ping pong pair program. We have a wiki. We write code test first. We contribute to Open Source when appropriate. Basically, anything I believe can be done to make programming better is something we are doing or are thinking about how to do.

If you want a job writing Ruby, get involved in the Ruby community. Write code for Open Source and blog about it. Give presentations at a local Ruby group. Heck, start a local Ruby group. As your name gets out, people will look for you. Open Source pays and with Ruby, the dividends in satisfaction and happiness are well worth some of your free time.

Now, I do Metaprogramming, where I program programmers who use Ruby to implement UseCases that I describe.

That’s the way it is when you get older.

Just got out of a meeting, looks like my last 6 months of lobbying are finally paying off! We’re going to start doing more of our work in Ruby! Now I need to run off and get a bunch of infrastructure in place.

http://vbmtrainingpartner.dk/

I want to use my expertise in java j2ee and lamp to make the switch to Ruby on Rails as I already know why RoR is better to according my diverse knowledge of the disadvantages of J2ee.

The problem is finding some company to let me work remote for the low price of $3,000 per month..

I have been coding Ruby professionally ruby for 18 months and my dept. is looking to hire. Please see http://jobs.rubynow.com/jobs/show/129. Ruby development experience is not as critical as strong development skills in another language. Come join us. We are having a blast!