# \[JOB\] Two Ruby Freelancers, NYC location preferred

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/job-two-ruby-freelancers-nyc-location-preferred/192751>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 4, 2010, 10:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/job-two-ruby-freelancers-nyc-location-preferred/192751 "2010-08-04T22:56:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![ryanoverton](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/7ea924/32.png) [@ryanoverton](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ryanoverton)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2010, 10:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/job-two-ruby-freelancers-nyc-location-preferred/192751/1 "2010-08-04T22:56:51Z")

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Ruby Developer for Readability Project  
ReadFeed is working on a content aggregation engine with built-in  
curation algorithm. We are focused on longer-form content rather than  
RSS specifically, with an older and more sophisticated audience focus  
(i.e. Economist or NY Times readers). ReadFeed is RSS-Evolved or  
Reddit/Slashdot+Instapaper specializing in long form content.

Looking for Ruby developer to work primarily on content parsing  
library. Focus on parser speed and reliability. Developer will be  
taking an existing Ruby Readability ([http://github.com/iterationlabs/](http://github.com/iterationlabs/)  
ruby-readability) parser and upgrade to increase speed and improve  
results for parser with thousands of sites. Developer will also  
creating a testing system to help measure the quality, speed and  
durability of library.

Project should last a month with weekly sprints and check-ins. Project  
to begin immediately.  
Those applying should have experience including:  
Ruby (1 year)  
Basic RegEx  
HTML (3+ Years) (Design or conversion)  
Nokogiri/XPaths/CSS  
Basic Statistics

Nice to Haves  
Git/Github  
In-Depth knowledge of Javascript

Please respond to removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid with the following:  
Short Introduction (No Cover Letter Necessary)  
At least 3 links to projects you have worked on yourself, with details  
on what aspects of the sites and/or back-end you completed. Prior to  
hiring, we will request references for each of your listed projects.  
Resume not required but helpful

Experience Ruby Developer for Micro-Payment Commerce Engine  
ReadFeed is working on a content aggregation engine with built-in  
curation algorithm. We are focused on longer-form content rather than  
RSS specifically, with an older and more sophisticated audience focus  
(i.e. Economist or NY Times readers). ReadFeed is RSS-Evolved or  
Reddit/Slashdot+Instapaper specializing in long form content.

Looking for Ruby developer to work primarily on a micro-payment  
commerce engine to allow for “metering” or micro-payments as content  
is consumed. Project would include:

Publisher features/uses: automated verification process for content  
providers via domain method or meta-tags; credit and deposit system  
for publishers; transaction logs; administration system; customization  
of payment methods, including charging different amounts based on  
length of content, age of content, location of user, past consumption  
of user, popularity of content.  
Reader features/uses: credit/debit deposit system via paypal; credit  
earning for sharing of urls via outside systems; administration  
system; easy to understand tracking of credits

Project should last 4-6 weeks with two week sprints; deploy commerce  
system into existing infrastructure. Opportunity for more ongoing work  
over time depending on initial project experience. Project would begin  
in late August.

Requirements  
Ruby/Rails (2 years)  
E-commerce (Active Merchant, paypal, google checkout) (1 large project  
or 2 smaller projects)  
Server Side Credit Transaction between Users  
Good understanding of security methods, Hashing, Salting, Key Pairing  
ActiveRecord/MySQL 5.1  
Ability to travel to NYC for meeting and interview

Nice to Haves  
Redis/couchdb for transaction logs  
nginx/ubuntu/gentoo  
git/github  
delayed\_job/resque  
Built e-commerce or similar complexity site from ground up

Please respond to removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid with the following:  
Short Introduction (No Cover Letter Necessary)  
At least 3 links to projects you have worked on yourself, with details  
on what aspects of the sites and/or back-end you completed. Prior to  
hiring, we will request references for each of your listed projects.  
Resume

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**Author:** ![ryanoverton](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/7ea924/32.png) [@ryanoverton](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ryanoverton)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2010, 4:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/job-two-ruby-freelancers-nyc-location-preferred/192751/2 "2010-08-05T04:52:09Z")

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anyone from Asian Region may work for you ?

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 12:17 AM, Ryan [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> ruby-readability [http://github.com/iterationlabs/ ruby-readability](http://github.com/iterationlabs/%0Aruby-readability))  
> HTML (3+ Years) (Design or conversion)  
> At least 3 links to projects you have worked on yourself, with details  
> Reddit/Slashdot+Instapaper specializing in long form content.  
> of user, popularity of content.  
> Ruby/Rails (2 years)  
> git/github

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Thanks:  
Rajeev sharma

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**Author:** ![ryanoverton](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/7ea924/32.png) [@ryanoverton](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ryanoverton)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2010, 7:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/job-two-ruby-freelancers-nyc-location-preferred/192751/3 "2010-08-07T19:42:05Z")

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Hi,

We are a company in india with expertise in Ruby on Rails… The  
following is our expertise

1.vWe have built about 20 applications on Ruby on Rails in last 4  
years  
2. We have been Ruby on Rails Contributors (We build plugins for  
Rails. You can find them at [heurionconsulting · GitHub](http://github.com/heurionconsulting) )  
3. We can handle performance and security related problems. We go by  
best technologies and mechanisms  
4. We use BDD as part of our implementation. Even our Plugins are  
Rspec’d.  
5. Agile is something I cherish.  
6. I write articles for Rails Magazine ([http://pdf.railsmagazine.com/](http://pdf.railsmagazine.com/)  
rails-magazine-issue5.pdf )  
7. Some of websites built by us are [www.wallhogs.com](http://www.wallhogs.com), [www.deskarma.com](http://www.deskarma.com),  
[www.bangthetable.com](http://www.bangthetable.com), [www.indiepubgames.com](http://www.indiepubgames.com), [www.abilitz.com](http://www.abilitz.com),  
[http://lmrg.nalip.com](http://lmrg.nalip.com), [www.nextpoint.com](http://www.nextpoint.com), [www.riesenstiker.de](http://www.riesenstiker.de),  
[www.xomad.com](http://www.xomad.com),  
[www.jitari.com](http://www.jitari.com), etc., There are multiple other applications  
developed for our client which were not launched. Some of them are  
Berlinbag, Dzynsoft, Veapp, StartupPains, Ohmygod, WhereCast, India  
Ruling, etc.,

Let me know if you want to use us… we can give you good support

Thanks and Regards  
Satish N Kota