# I have a small budget, where can I find a ruby programmer without breaking the bank?

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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [November 30, 2007, 7:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/i-have-a-small-budget-where-can-i-find-a-ruby-programmer-without-breaking-the-bank/121722 "2007-11-30T07:09:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2007, 7:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/i-have-a-small-budget-where-can-i-find-a-ruby-programmer-without-breaking-the-bank/121722/1 "2007-11-30T07:09:31Z")

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I know everybody’s gotta eat, so I am trying to find someone who might  
not be a rails ninja, but has good core skills for a fun project I am  
working on. Any suggestions or thoughts of where or who I should talk  
to. Thanks!

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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2007, 3:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/i-have-a-small-budget-where-can-i-find-a-ruby-programmer-without-breaking-the-bank/121722/2 "2007-11-30T15:30:03Z")

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removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote:

> I know everybody’s gotta eat, so I am trying to find someone who might  
> not be a rails ninja, but has good core skills for a fun project I am  
> working on. Any suggestions or thoughts of where or who I should talk  
> to. Thanks!

People have posted job opportunities on this very site. You might give  
out an email and tell people what you are looking for and see who  
responds. Good luck,

-S

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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2007, 4:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/i-have-a-small-budget-where-can-i-find-a-ruby-programmer-without-breaking-the-bank/121722/3 "2007-11-30T16:56:57Z")

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removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote:

> I know everybody’s gotta eat, so I am trying to find someone who might  
> not be a rails ninja, but has good core skills for a fun project I am  
> working on. Any suggestions or thoughts of where or who I should talk  
> to. Thanks!

Also consider that many developers would consider working out a deal  
where work for you fills in the lean times at a lower rate. It is sort  
of like “run of station” advertising on a radio station. Companies  
sometimes work out a deal to take “all the advertising they can get for  
half price”. Then wherever the station manager has a hole to fill, they  
plug in some cheap advertising for one of their run-of-station  
companies.

So if you are willing to be patient and understand that there will be  
occasional times when it seems like you’ve been forgotten, there will be  
other times when you are feasting on the fact that there is a shortage  
of work for some time.

Drop me a note at jp at jeffpritchard dot com.

cheers,  
jp

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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2007, 5:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/i-have-a-small-budget-where-can-i-find-a-ruby-programmer-without-breaking-the-bank/121722/4 "2007-11-30T17:04:11Z")

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what exactly do you understand under ‘fun project’?  
if it’s not to make money, you may start it as an opensource project. if  
it’s cool enough, you will get people work on it for free.