# Looking for a rails mentor

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/looking-for-a-rails-mentor/157826>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 15, 2009, 6:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/looking-for-a-rails-mentor/157826 "2009-01-15T18:13:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![caneridge](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/b487fb/32.png) [@caneridge](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/caneridge)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 6:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/looking-for-a-rails-mentor/157826/1 "2009-01-15T18:13:51Z")

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I’m looking for a rails mentor. I can’t offer to pay you but I can  
offer to mentor someone else to give back to the community after I’ve  
learned rails.

Here is where I stand. I’ve been a software engineer since 1984  
working mostly with Perl for the last half of my career in  
configuration management and release engineering. I converted to Ruby  
about 5 months ago and have fallen in love with the language after  
writing a few thousand lines of code in it. Now, I’m working on a pro  
bono project to rewrite a commercial website for a friend of mine  
whose business really needs a makeover. I won’t get paid for any of  
the work. I’ve gone through about 7 books on rails. I have a basic  
working rails app up and running with the site’s inventory imported. I  
need to add a number of additional features to make the site usable  
for production and expect this to take me several months at the rate  
I’m making progress. I have a number of design questions and I keep  
hitting little snags of things I don’t know how to do. It would be  
great to have someone experienced with rails to bounce ideas off of  
and get tips for how to do things in rails.

Any takers? You can reach me directly at: brian at spidoweb dot net.

Brian J.

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**Author:** ![caneridge](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/b487fb/32.png) [@caneridge](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/caneridge)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 6:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/looking-for-a-rails-mentor/157826/2 "2009-01-15T18:41:29Z")

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Just get a good book and use #rubyonrails ([irc.freenode.net](http://irc.freenode.net)) irc  
channel whenevr you have questions 🙂

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:33 PM, caneridge [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> bono project to rewrite a commercial website for a friend of mine  
> Any takers? You can reach me directly at: brian at spidoweb dot net.
> 
> Brian J.
> 
> >

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Cheers!

- Pratik  
[http://m.onkey.org](http://m.onkey.org)