Rails - Feb 2005 - Introduce yourself and your project -- Round 2

On December 14th, 2004 David Heinemeier Hansson sent this to the mailing
list:

  I''m seeing a lot of new names on the list. Could
  we perhaps do a round of introductions? That would
  also be a great first post, if you haven''t had a
  chance to contribute yet. The basics should include
  your name, your organization, your country and city,
  and the project you''re currently working on.

Its been a couple months since then (ancient history in Rails-time),
I''m
updating my Rails presentation, and I''d like to include some
information
about what is being done with Rails.

Below I listed all of the responses from the first round. If your response
is no longer current, please post a correction. If you missed the first
round of introductions, please use this as an excuse to let everyone know
what you are doing.

Thanks,
Curt

PS
  Note to Bob Sidebotham: Yes, I remember punched cards & paper tape!  :-)


======= First Round Posts ======
David Heinemeier Hansson,
Working with 37signals
Live in Copenhagen, Denmark, but are working with
people in Chicago, US
Basecamp and the forthcoming Writeboard

======
Scott Barron
Doing rails stuff for Ohio University
Live in Athens, Ohio
Public projects:
  Elite Journal
  Recipe Box

As far as work related projects at OU go, I''ve got applications that
handle things as simple as a student employee schedule, to an app that
creates and maintains a schedule of movies for the university''s movie
channel, to an app that maintains and handles billing for the dining
hall, and a few more along those lines.  All future projects here will
be developed in rails and several of our PHP projects have been ported
to rails.

======
Pelle Brændgaard
Working independently on a range of crypto and financial applications.
Live permanently in Panama City, Panama but am temporarily in
Copenhagen, Denmark.

Working on a "topsecret" project using Rails and a range of opensource
java code.

======
Johan Sörensen
Currently a freelancer/consultant
Living in the south of sweden at the moment, currently looking for
work that''d allow me to use Rails (of course ;)) in one way or
another.

On the subject of public personal Rails projects I have Collaboa,
which is a communitywikiforumthingie I''ve created for the swedish mac
dev site http://cocoa.se. There is a Trac install available at
http://collaboa.cocoa.se/trac if anyone wants to have a peek...

======
Demetrius Arraes Nunes
Working on my masters degree in PUC-RJ, Brazil
I also work on my own e-learning start-up company: Interface Ltd
(http://www.interface-ti.com.br) (we use .NET there, for now... ;-) )
I live in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
My masters degree is about a web modeling technique called OOHDM (Object
Oriented Hypermedia Design Method) that was "invented" by my
professor,
Daniel Schwabe (Phd-UCLA), some 10 years ago, that adds a distinct
"navigational modeling" step in the development cycle. In this step,
you
map conceptual objects to navigational objects, define navigational
contexts, indexes, links, anchors and other navigational primitives. I
am developing a application that is the same time the modeling
environment (using OOHDM) and the resulting application itself in a kind
o wiki-like mode where you can edit not only the data, but also the
model (and metamodel).
The last (and HUGE) step in my project is to port the MySql
implementation to a RDF database called Sesame, and that means porting
ActiveRecord from relational to semantic/rdf. God (and please, David!)
help me... :-O My deadline is februrary 28th. I am already done with 80%
of the relational version.

======
Chris McGrath
Currently freelance contractor based in Dublin, Ireland working on VB
and ASP Stuff (urgh)
Looking to find work in Rails, or convice my current place to convert
some of thier apps to Rails.
Working on a personal finance style application as a means of learning
Rails and getting rid of GnuCash.
I''m hoping to contribute something to the project in the new year,
even if it''s just a couple of minor bugfixes :)

======
Peter Johansson
Working as consultant for a large Fortune 500 company
Live and work in Stockholm, Sweden

Just beginning to learn Rails (and Ruby) on my spare time and have
planned to convert a couple of PHP-based apps to Rails. Previously
I''ve worked most with PHP, Perl and Java.

======
Dale Hawkins
Denver (Littleton), Colorado, US

I have written a couple utilities (a worklog/billing application), and
I am working on porting a large, ugly php application used by
government agents (no kidding).  The backend DB is sybase (oh, joy!
:-( ), so I''ve been working on a sybase adapter whenever I get around
to it.  (But I have another job and kids, so progress is very slow
much of the time).

I''ve been meaning to start a software project management tool using
rails.  Along the lines of trac but with some scheduling, resource
tracking, and support for story card/use case design.

======
Marcel Molina Jr.
"Doing rails stuff for" Simon''s Rock College, a small liberal
arts college
in
the wilds of Massachusetts that accepts "gifted" students into college
two
years earlier than usual
I live in The Berkshires, South Western Massachusetts

Currently working on an online admissions application, errr, application
so that prospective students can apply to the college online. Also writing
an application to register student/faculty/staff machines on the network.
Planning on porting all (or most) existing web applications to Rails.
Moving toward doing pretty much *everything* here with Rails (if web
related) or Ruby if not, when appropriate (which is most of the time).

noradio on the #rubyonrails channel, much to david''s distress.

======
Jarkko Laine
Student, athlete and entrepreneur
Graduating from Tampere University of Technology (hopefully) next year
Running my own company, O''Design
Live and prosper in Tampere, Finland (that''s next to Nokia, people)
Working on my first commercial Rails project at the moment (a simple
CMS)
As a personal project I''m developing a Basecamp for athlete groups and
trainers, including training diary etc...
jarkko (surprise?) at #rubyonrails

======
Hello, my name is Steve Kellock and I''m a Rails junkie.
what-a-day on IRC #rubyonrails
Indy Developer
Barrie (just north of Toronto), Canada

- Completed a sales application for a client.
- Currently working on a
sports-team-management-extranet-type-of-app-thingy (it''d be a lot
clearer with screen shots).
- Have a few projects lined up for 2005... guess what I''m going to
write them with?  (hint: it''s not DOS batch files)

======
Kevin Evans, University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK

Currently working on a Rails based blogging application for the
(http://www.glam.ac.uk) University. Very close to going live, just
struggling with fcgi stability :-(

regards
Kevin Evans
IS Development Manager

======
Tanner Burson
Live in the great state of Oklahoma in the US.

Learning rails in my spare time, for my own personal projects at the
moment.  Currently writing a multi-user task list of sorts.  Hoping to
eventually find a client willing to take the plunge as well

======
Austin Moody
MedAlliance Management Group - a small physician consulting firm in
Johnson City, Tennessee.
Completely rewritten our old electronic health claims manager in
Rails/Ruby from PHP/Python.  Also created a custom intranet portal
manager and a few other small specialized apps.
austinetsu on #rubyonrails

======
I''m Rick Bradley, working as 1 of 4 people (2 developers - the other
developer is also on this list) at Base Systems (www.basesys.com) here
in Nashville, TN.  We''re deploying a few new products for the medical
industry (Asterisk-based voice recording systems, handheld applications,
etc.) and will be converting our medical workflow system (currently
serving transcription providers) from PHP to Ruby and Rails over the
next few months.

Since our company is so small we''re heavy into magnifying our
productivity.  We''ve looked at (best estimate) close to 100 different
frameworks in multiple languages over the past year and only Rails
appears to actually reduce the amount of work we have to do.

I''m also gradually converting my various personal toys over to using
Rails as well -- I started with the DemoApp accountomatic which is
working very well for me since porting it over to Rails.  Next is
probably my jukebox system (rdtj.sourceforge.net), which looks like it
will end up being Ruby+Madeleine+RGL+FreeBASE+Rails.

======
- Sascha Ebach
- Entrepeneur
- Living in Troisdorf Germany, which is right in between of Cologne and
Bonn.
- MCMS which stands for Magical Content Management Solution
MCMS will a try to make a cms that ppl want to actually use, but
nevertheless will have a lot of functionality. It will be magical and it
will be open source.

ROADMAP
======* Unique concentration on usability, web standards and accessibility
* Contentrepository as a tree, so you will be able easily extend the
functionality of a corporate website to a blog with comments, a forum, a
shop, a whatever. Something along the lines of ezpublish and drupal.
* Versioning
* WYSIWYG editing (with FCKEditor, which I find amazing)
* different views and the administration, so new users and powerusers
can feel at home
* Maybe even edit-in-place, like you can see in Bitflux CMS, or LIMB.
But I am uncertain about that as I think edit in place is not always the
most generally applicable solution, esp. if you wanna have a cms which
handles
* multiple diffrent websites under one adminstration
* media repository
* make it possible to turn it in a hostable solution (this one will
probably by closed source)
* lots of other things

Current progress is 10%. As I am working on this alone, have a business
to run (where I can not always program in ruby) and my family to care
about, progress is not going to be very fast. Hopefully it will be
something usable within the next 6-12 months. If luck strikes me and if
what they say about rails is true, than it might be earlier ;)

As soon as I have something usable I will create an enironment where
collaboration is possible. If you wanna help, please wait a little while
until I get my act together. Which (I feel sometimes) could never happen
;) I will announce it on this list.

======
Sean Leach
Ventura, CA
irc: kicker

Working on several personal projects with rails.  RSS feed aggregator,
stat management application as well a small ecommerce app, probably
won''t finish any of them :)

I do 99% of my work in Python when I can, and will continue to do so,
but Rails is by far the best web framework I have used (and I guarantee
I have used/built apps with pretty much all of them from the PHP ones to
the Java ones etc.).  To be honest, I wish there was a Python on Rails
like has been discussed.  Ruby is a fine language, but I know Python in
and out and prefer it over Ruby (please do not begin a language war).

======
Jim Weirich
Consultant for Compuware,
Currently working on-site at a LARGE financial company
Java programmer by day, Ruby programmer by night (and some day too!)
Rails Projects:
* Storycards -- XP like planning tool
* Misc prototypes
Non-Rails Ruby Projects
* Rake -- Ruby''s version of Make
* RubyGems -- Packaging software

======
Lee Marlow
IRC: mecraw
Denver (Highlands Ranch), CO, USA

So far I''m just a Ruby/Rails voyeur.  I became interested when Dave
Thomas
mentioned Ruby at a Java conference.  I hope to do some personal projects in
Rails, maybe my wedding site.  Hopefully Rails makes web development easy
enough for a backend Java developer.

======

Jason Alexander Hoffman
PhD scientist at the Novartis Institute for Functional Genomic
Master configurer behind TextDrive
Live in La Jolla California, and am lucky to work with people who are
everywhere

NIFG is all perl, java, python (in that order) and some ruby (me) but
no Rails (yet?)
My personal pet project is a bioinformatics web app in Rails.
And I dream at night of a end-user hosting "control panel" in Rails.

======
Jason Alexander Hoffman
PhD scientist at the Novartis Institute for Functional Genomic
Master configurer behind TextDrive
Live in La Jolla California, and am lucky to work with people who are
everywhere

NIFG is all perl, java, python (in that order) and some ruby (me) but
no Rails (yet?)
My personal pet project is a bioinformatics web app in Rails.
And I dream at night of a end-user hosting "control panel" in Rails.

======
I''m Sam Stephenson; 20 years old, unemployed, on leave from Virginia
Polytechnic Institute, and currently living in Chicago, IL, US. A
recent evaluation has demonstrated that I''m not really good at
anything, but that doesn''t keep me from enjoying Rails.

I live for Ruby, I''m a huge fan of domain-specific languages, and I
get really excited by introspection and all the stuff that comes with
it. I like to build small things out of even smaller things.

I have a tendency to create projects and leave them unmaintained. As a
subscriber to the Rails list, ou may have encountered two of those:
Prick[1], an IRC quote application written in Rails, and Paginator
Helper[2]. If you use Gtk+, there''s also my Gtk::MDI[3] library, which
suffers the same fate.

I contribute trivial patches to Rails when I can.

My current project is Timber, a Rails application for Web magazines.
It lets authors and editors collaborate on articles and makes it easy
to lay out content. It''s similar to Textpattern[4] but significantly
simpler. I''m also playing around with an interactive Web-based
debugger for Rails which adds a live irb console to your error pages
with XMLHttpRequest.

You can almost always find me on #rubyonrails as sam-.

======
I''m Joe Van Dyk.  I''ve been playing around with Ruby for about
six
months, and Rails about a month.  Neat stuff.

My "real job" is working for the Integrated Defense Systems division
of Boeing.  My recent project there has been using Ruby for a GUI to
view and control simulations.  As far as I know, I''m the only person
at Boeing to use Ruby for anything, but hopefully that will change!

I''m also developing a real estate site using Rails.  Can''t
wait until
0.9 comes out.

======
I am: Bob Sidebotham
Vancouver, Canada

After spending 30 years writing software in various guises (anyone
remember punched cards and paper tape?), I had pretty much burned out.
I spent the last several years looking for another vocation. I''ve had
some minor successes, such as an exhibit of hand-processed b&w
photographs--which I''ve since webified at
http://windsong.bc.ca/alonetogether). Recently, however, I discovered
Ruby, and my interest in software was re-kindled.

Several years ago, I wrote the software for managing a small home
delivery business that provides organic produce and groceries. I''m
currently considering rewriting that now ancient system in Rails. It
has to deal with the whole gamut of processes, including inventory
management, supplier ordering, customer relations, customer ordering,
warehouse operations, delivery routing, accounting, billing, and
others.

Ruby and Rails look like they will provide a good foundation for
creating a maintainable--maybe even elegant--system for this business.

======
Samuel Kvarnbrink
Lives in Umeå, Sweden. Working part-time as a system administrator at
the university of Umeå, otherwise a freelance developer.

Freelance: Working with the Umeå Krio Corpus, which is a Rails app
that''s used for managing and analyzing texts written in the Krio
language for a research project. Krio, which is an Anglo-African Creole
language spoken in various parts of West Africa, uses some phonetic
characters for extra vowels and therefore the entire collection (which
is HUGE and growing!) is encoded using UTF-16. I''ve implemented a very
fast text scanner in C that interfaces with Oniguruma, and Rails is
used to provide a good frontend for it and handle the DB part.

Day job: Working on a _huge_ administrative application for HUMlab, a
computer lab for people from all disciplines (but with main focus on
the humanities). The app will manage/create user accounts, handle all
courses held in the lab (and follow-up surveys), handle reservations,
provide an interface for an SNMP-based print quota system (which i
wrote in Ruby, of course) and a lot of other stuff. The app basically
contains of three components: a Rails frontend, an AR-powered utility
that handles/creates accounts in OpenLDAP, and the print quota system
(also AR-powered).

The app is currently in alpha/planning stage, but will replace a less
maintainable CGI-based Ruby system I wrote a while ago. It''s going to
be a _lot_ of work, but due to the efficiency of Rails I''m estimating
it to be much less cumbersome than maintaining and developing the old
app.

======
Michael Koziarski
Live in Wellington New Zealand.
Working for a Bank,  Java by day ruby by night.
No public rails projects yet,  but something''s in the works.

======
Robert Bousquet
Front-end developer at the University of Southern California
Currently re-skinning the USC Scholar''s Portal front-end and working on
the USC Digital Archive
Daydreaming about building Rails apps instead.
Also running freelance gig, Debut Web Design.

======
I''m Jens-Christian Fischer working at my company InVisible GmbH in
Zurich,
Switzerland.
Our main line of business are intranet applications for large companies
(in Lotus Notes mainly)

I have 13+ years of Lotus Notes experience and always dabbled in languages
on the side (Pascal, Modula-2, Smalltalk, C (argh), C++ (AAARRRGGG), Java,
awk, Perl, Python and now Ruby

I have several other companies/projects (neural-network stock trading [1],
p2p email [2] and a semi-secret mud/mush inspired [3] rails project that I
hope to have live in the next few weeks.

[1] http://www.ivorix.com
[2] http://www.zappatanetworks.com
[3] http://amuda.ch

======
Jeff Moss
Sandy, Utah, USA (Salt Lake City suburbia)
Currently attending University of Utah for a bachelors in business
administration.
Day Job: work for a long distance reseller, www.americom.com, where I am
the only developer employed. Currently overhauling entire website to
move it out of the early 90''s era, convinced boss to do it in rails,
the
best framework that I''ve ever investigated, by a long shot. I believe I
have David to thank?
Previous experience has been Perl and PHP, and before that I messed
around in C/C++. In my free time I play with other languages and am one
of you who starts many projects and finishes few to none due to other
invasive interests, although my current project, an ebay tool that
interfaces with their xml web services, has actually come quite far and
appears to be finishable, assuming the demons don''t take me first.

======
Tobias Lütke
Stranded German in Ottawa, Canada

Currently I''m doing contract and some consulting work as well as
several own commercial and private projects.
100% Of my payed work is done in Rails at this point, i''m one of the
lucky
few.
My best known project is probably http://www.snowdevil.ca , a
full-fledged e-commerce system
build on rails which hopefully hits its next milestone soon by selling
some bloody snowboards.

Apart from snowdevil i have been working on Hieraki a collaborative
book writing tool reusing proven concepts from wikis and tools like
them. Hieraki has been progressing well and will probably receive a
real announcement soon as it will be released under the MIT license.

My background is mainly static languages like c and c++ and
unfortunately some java as well.
After about 10 years of those you have seen it all...

Ruby rocks !

======
Hi, I''m Dan Peterson (danp in #rubyonrails) from Yuma, AZ. I work for
the Yuma Educational Consortium which is comprised of the local high
school district and one of the two elementary districts in the area as
well as other various entities.

I''ve been using Ruby for mainly procedural text-processing for about
four years now and I still do a lot of text data conversion and
manipulation with it every day. I''m blown away by Rails and how well
it all works together. I started out using it trying to write a new
accounts system with linkage to our two payroll systems. That was a
bit ambitious so I''ve put that on hold and am working on an app for
tracking patches to our Oracle-based student information system and am
having a lot of fun tinkering with it and especially trying out the
new features that will appear in 0.9.

I can''t wait to implement more things for my customers with Rails;
both to help them and to let me have fun doing it! :)

======
Michel Rasschaert from Paris, France.

I learn the basics of a lot of programming languages as a hobby (too
many to write here) and I was very soon interested in Ruby. But it
really is rails that made me use it for real at last.

Professionally I work for a bank doing Delphi work and hopefully
migrating to Java and introducing some XP concepts (testing,
continuous integration, IoC, etc.) but it''s hard.

In my spare time (not a lot regretfully) I work on a personal finance
application on rails :)

======
I''ve been doing PHP development for 8 years but have just falled in
love with Rails. I am currently a senior Physics major attending Reed
College in Portland, Oregon.

Rails Projects:
----------------------
The Conjuring Cabaret - http://magic.rufy.com/
My first project was to port the first site I created (back in 1996) to
Rails from an ugly PHP/MySQL setup. The new version has 752 LOC and is
much more customizable.

Web Collaborator - http://webcollaborator.com/ (in progress)
Again a port, but this time from a homebrewed MVC PHP backend to Rails.
It has taken 8 hours to port 90% of the site to Rails compared to the
two months of scattered development it took for the original site to be
put together. Including libraries (like Smarty), the PHP version had 30
KLOCs. Including Rails code, the Rails version has 3 KLOCs (~600 lines
of non-Rails code). This has been a HUGE improvement and will vastly
speed up development time for this project. The Rails version should be
up before the new year.

PATA - http://pataweb.net/
I am in charge of revamping this site and have decided to do it with
Rails.

Reed College
I am going to be building various internal utility pages for Reed
College''s web presence with Rails.

======
My name is Sarah Wedde and I live in Petone, New Zealand.

I''m currently trying to decrapify my weblog thingamy
(http://onebefore.org/), make myself an application that will totally
organise my life and fold my laundry, and I''m having a bit of a play
around
with something to make use of the OpenSource Shakespeare database I
downloaded during a bout of procrastination.

======
My namie is Shyam Gopale and I live in Pune, India.

Currently using rails for developing a web based portal
for a friend. New to both Ruby and Rails. In my day job
I develop "Identity Management" products.

======
Curt Sampson
CTO, tabemo.com
Tokyo, Japan

I''m building a (mostly mobile) website for time-based restaurant
discounts (e.g., better discounts when the restaurant is not busy).
Currently I''m battling my way out of PHP and MySQL hell, legacy of
a previous IT administration here.

Previously I was Chief Architect at vanten.com, where my main project
was an enterprise management system for a national wireless ISP in
Japan. That was Java on top of PostgreSQL, and while PostgreSQL can
compete with the best of them, it increased my frustrations with Java
to the point I started looking for a new language.

======
Name:  Jens Himmelreich
What:  Working at hanke multimediahaus (www.hmmh.de),
       Ruby/Rails voyeur
Where: Living in Bremen, Germany
Work:  ecommerce-Websites (e.g. www.bonprix.de)

======
Name: Magnus Bodin
Employer: IBM
Country, City: Sweden, Malmö

Current project: Private Web project, will be public 2005Q1

We are currently two rails-fans at the IBM-office in Malmö.
I hope that this will lead to something in the future.

=======
Who:   Stefano Cobianchi
Where: Milan, Italy
What:  Using Ruby everywhere I can (currently it powers the server-side
       of our email-marketing application); trying to promote Rails
       as a replacement for our ugly home-brewed PHP frameworks (urgh)
Why:   Well, given the choice among PHP, Java and Ruby, what would a
       sane person do? :-)

======
Erno Mononen
Living in  Jyväskylä, Finland

Developing sustainability  management  software using Java,  new  both
to Ruby and Rails.  I''ve been experimenting with Rails for couple
weeks now and I have to say I''m really impressed by the productivity
boost that  it offers. Looking for opportunities to use it in my daily
work.

======= End =======

On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 19:52 -0600, Curt Hibbs wrote:
> On December 14th, 2004 David Heinemeier Hansson sent this to the mailing
> list:
> 
>   I''m seeing a lot of new names on the list. Could
>   we perhaps do a round of introductions? That would
>   also be a great first post, if you haven''t had a
>   chance to contribute yet. The basics should include
>   your name, your organization, your country and city,
>   and the project you''re currently working on.
> 
Robby Russell of PLANET ARGON 
Live in Portland, Oregon USA
http://www.planetargon.com/

Currently working on:
Ruby Shipping API http://rubyforge.org/projects/shipping/
and pgCart (potentially porting to Rails)

Cheers,

Robby


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Hi! Im lurker and a newbie here. Im Stephen, developer
from Manila, Philippines. Im a Java Dev by day. Im
doing a mini-POS system for a tire store for my very
first ruby/rails project. Im doing it to practice my
ruby, but its going to be used for real too... if it
turns out okay ;). 
Hi Curt, excellent article btw. Cant wait for the next
article. Thanks!

--- Curt Hibbs <curt-fk6st7iWb8MAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On December 14th, 2004 David Heinemeier Hansson sent
> this to the mailing
> list:
> 
>   I''m seeing a lot of new names on the list. Could
>   we perhaps do a round of introductions? That would
>   also be a great first post, if you haven''t had a
>   chance to contribute yet. The basics should
> include
>   your name, your organization, your country and
> city,
>   and the project you''re currently working on.
> 
> Its been a couple months since then (ancient history
> in Rails-time), I''m
> updating my Rails presentation, and I''d like to
> include some information
> about what is being done with Rails.
> 
> Below I listed all of the responses from the first
> round. If your response
> is no longer current, please post a correction. If
> you missed the first
> round of introductions, please use this as an excuse
> to let everyone know
> what you are doing.
> 
> Thanks,
> Curt
> 
> PS
>   Note to Bob Sidebotham: Yes, I remember punched
> cards & paper tape!  :-)
> 
> 
> ======= First Round Posts ======> 
> David Heinemeier Hansson,
> Working with 37signals
> Live in Copenhagen, Denmark, but are working with
> people in Chicago, US
> Basecamp and the forthcoming Writeboard
> 
> ======> 
> Scott Barron
> Doing rails stuff for Ohio University
> Live in Athens, Ohio
> Public projects:
>   Elite Journal
>   Recipe Box
> 
> As far as work related projects at OU go, I''ve got
> applications that
> handle things as simple as a student employee
> schedule, to an app that
> creates and maintains a schedule of movies for the
> university''s movie
> channel, to an app that maintains and handles
> billing for the dining
> hall, and a few more along those lines.  All future
> projects here will
> be developed in rails and several of our PHP
> projects have been ported
> to rails.
> 
> ======> 
> Pelle Brndgaard
> Working independently on a range of crypto and
> financial applications.
> Live permanently in Panama City, Panama but am
> temporarily in
> Copenhagen, Denmark.
> 
> Working on a "topsecret" project using Rails and a
> range of opensource
> java code.
> 
> ======> 
> Johan Srensen
> Currently a freelancer/consultant
> Living in the south of sweden at the moment,
> currently looking for
> work that''d allow me to use Rails (of course ;)) in
> one way or
> another.
> 
> On the subject of public personal Rails projects I
> have Collaboa,
> which is a communitywikiforumthingie I''ve created
> for the swedish mac
> dev site http://cocoa.se. There is a Trac install
> available at
> http://collaboa.cocoa.se/trac if anyone wants to
> have a peek...
> 
> ======> 
> Demetrius Arraes Nunes
> Working on my masters degree in PUC-RJ, Brazil
> I also work on my own e-learning start-up company:
> Interface Ltd
> (http://www.interface-ti.com.br) (we use .NET there,
> for now... ;-) )
> I live in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
> My masters degree is about a web modeling technique
> called OOHDM (Object
> Oriented Hypermedia Design Method) that was
> "invented" by my professor,
> Daniel Schwabe (Phd-UCLA), some 10 years ago, that
> adds a distinct
> "navigational modeling" step in the development
> cycle. In this step, you
> map conceptual objects to navigational objects,
> define navigational
> contexts, indexes, links, anchors and other
> navigational primitives. I
> am developing a application that is the same time
> the modeling
> environment (using OOHDM) and the resulting
> application itself in a kind
> o wiki-like mode where you can edit not only the
> data, but also the
> model (and metamodel).
> The last (and HUGE) step in my project is to port
> the MySql
> implementation to a RDF database called Sesame, and
> that means porting
> ActiveRecord from relational to semantic/rdf. God
> (and please, David!)
> help me... :-O My deadline is februrary 28th. I am
> already done with 80%
> of the relational version.
> 
> ======> 
> Chris McGrath
> Currently freelance contractor based in Dublin,
> Ireland working on VB
> and ASP Stuff (urgh)
> Looking to find work in Rails, or convice my current
> place to convert
> some of thier apps to Rails.
> Working on a personal finance style application as a
> means of learning
> Rails and getting rid of GnuCash.
> I''m hoping to contribute something to the project in
> the new year,
> even if it''s just a couple of minor bugfixes :)
> 
> ======> 
> Peter Johansson
> Working as consultant for a large Fortune 500
> company
> Live and work in Stockholm, Sweden
> 
> Just beginning to learn Rails (and Ruby) on my spare
> time and have
> planned to convert a couple of PHP-based apps to
> Rails. Previously
> I''ve worked most with PHP, Perl and Java.
> 
> ======> 
> Dale Hawkins
> Denver (Littleton), Colorado, US
> 
> I have written a couple utilities (a worklog/billing
> application), and
> I am working on porting a large, ugly php
> application used by
> government agents (no kidding).  The backend DB is
> sybase (oh, joy!
> :-( ), so I''ve been working on a sybase adapter
> whenever I get around
> to it.  (But I have another job and kids, so
> progress is very slow
> much of the time).
> 
> I''ve been meaning to start a software project
> management tool using
> rails.  Along the lines of trac but with some
> scheduling, resource
> tracking, and support for story card/use case
> design.
> 
> ======> 
> Marcel Molina Jr.
> "Doing rails stuff for" Simon''s Rock College, a
> small liberal arts college
> in
> the wilds of Massachusetts that accepts "gifted"
> students into college two
> years earlier than usual
> I live in The Berkshires, South Western
> Massachusetts
> 
> Currently working on an online admissions
> application, errr, application
> so that prospective students can apply to the
> college online. Also writing
> an application to register student/faculty/staff
> machines on the network.
> Planning on porting all (or most) existing web
> applications to Rails.
> Moving toward doing pretty much *everything* here
> with Rails (if web
> related) or Ruby if not, when appropriate (which is
> most of the time).
> 
> noradio on the #rubyonrails channel, much to david''s
> distress.
> 
> ======> 
> Jarkko Laine
> Student, athlete and entrepreneur
> Graduating from Tampere University of Technology
> (hopefully) next year
> Running my own company, O''Design
> Live and prosper in Tampere, Finland (that''s next to
> Nokia, people)
> Working on my first commercial Rails project at the
> moment (a simple
> CMS)
> As a personal project I''m developing a Basecamp for
> athlete groups and
> trainers, including training diary etc...
> jarkko (surprise?) at #rubyonrails
> 
> ======> 
> Hello, my name is Steve Kellock and I''m a Rails
> junkie.
> what-a-day on IRC #rubyonrails
> Indy Developer
> Barrie (just north of Toronto), Canada
> 
> - Completed a sales application for a client.
> - Currently working on a
> sports-team-management-extranet-type-of-app-thingy
> (it''d be a lot
> clearer with screen shots).
> - Have a few projects lined up for 2005... guess
> what I''m going to
> write them with?  (hint: it''s not DOS batch files)
> 
> ======> 
> Kevin Evans, University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK
> 
> Currently working on a Rails based blogging
> application for the
> (http://www.glam.ac.uk) University. Very close to
> going live, just
> struggling with fcgi stability :-(
> 
> regards
> Kevin Evans
> IS Development Manager
> 
> ======> 
> Tanner Burson
> Live in the great state of Oklahoma in the US.
> 
> Learning rails in my spare time, for my own personal
> projects at the
> moment.  Currently writing a multi-user task list of
> sorts.  Hoping to
> eventually find a client willing to take the plunge
> as well
> 
> ======> 
> Austin Moody
> MedAlliance Management Group - a small physician
> consulting firm in
> Johnson City, Tennessee.
> Completely rewritten our old electronic health
> claims manager in
> Rails/Ruby from PHP/Python.  Also created a custom
> intranet portal
> manager and a few other small specialized apps.
> austinetsu on #rubyonrails
> 
> ======> 
> I''m Rick Bradley, working as 1 of 4 people (2
> developers - the other
> developer is also on this list) at Base Systems
> (www.basesys.com) here
> in Nashville, TN.  We''re deploying a few new
> products for the medical
> industry (Asterisk-based voice recording systems,
> handheld applications,
> etc.) and will be converting our medical workflow
> system (currently
> serving transcription providers) from PHP to Ruby
> and Rails over the
> next few months.
> 
> Since our company is so small we''re heavy into
> magnifying our
> productivity.  We''ve looked at (best estimate) close
> to 100 different
> frameworks in multiple languages over the past year
> and only Rails
> appears to actually reduce the amount of work we
> have to do.
> 
> I''m also gradually converting my various personal
> toys over to using
> Rails as well -- I started with the DemoApp
> accountomatic which is
> working very well for me since porting it over to
> Rails.  Next is
> probably my jukebox system (rdtj.sourceforge.net),
> which looks like it
> will end up being Ruby+Madeleine+RGL+FreeBASE+Rails.
> 
> ======> 
> - Sascha Ebach
> - Entrepeneur
> - Living in Troisdorf Germany, which is right in
> between of Cologne and
> Bonn.
> - MCMS which stands for Magical Content Management
> Solution
> MCMS will a try to make a cms that ppl want to
> actually use, but
> nevertheless will have a lot of functionality. It
> will be magical and it
> will be open source.
> 
> ROADMAP
> ======> * Unique concentration on usability, web standards
> and accessibility
> * Contentrepository as a tree, so you will be able
> easily extend the
> functionality of a corporate website to a blog with
> comments, a forum, a
> shop, a whatever. Something along the lines of
> ezpublish and drupal.
> * Versioning
> * WYSIWYG editing (with FCKEditor, which I find
> amazing)
> * different views and the administration, so new
> users and powerusers
> can feel at home
> * Maybe even edit-in-place, like you can see in
> Bitflux CMS, or LIMB.
> But I am uncertain about that as I think edit in
> place is not always the
> most generally applicable solution, esp. if you
> wanna have a cms which
> handles
> * multiple diffrent websites under one adminstration
> * media repository
> * make it possible to turn it in a hostable solution
> (this one will
> probably by closed source)
> * lots of other things
> 
> Current progress is 10%. As I am working on this
> alone, have a business
> to run (where I can not always program in ruby) and
> my family to care
> about, progress is not going to be very fast.
> Hopefully it will be
> something usable within the next 6-12 months. If
> luck strikes me and if
> what they say about rails is true, than it might be
> earlier ;)
> 
> As soon as I have something usable I will create an
> enironment where
> collaboration is possible. If you wanna help, please
> wait a little while
> until I get my act together. Which (I feel
> sometimes) could never happen
> ;) I will announce it on this list.
> 
> ======> 
> Sean Leach
> Ventura, CA
> irc: kicker
> 
> Working on several personal projects with rails. 
> RSS feed aggregator,
> stat management application as well a small
> ecommerce app, probably
> won''t finish any of them :)
> 
> I do 99% of my work in Python when I can, and will
> continue to do so,
> but Rails is by far the best web framework I have
> used (and I guarantee
> I have used/built apps with pretty much all of them
> from the PHP ones to
> the Java ones etc.).  To be honest, I wish there was
> a Python on Rails
> like has been discussed.  Ruby is a fine language,
> but I know Python in
> and out and prefer it over Ruby (please do not begin
> a language war).
> 
> ======> 
> Jim Weirich
> Consultant for Compuware,
> Currently working on-site at a LARGE financial
> company
> Java programmer by day, Ruby programmer by night
> (and some day too!)
> Rails Projects:
> * Storycards -- XP like planning tool
> * Misc prototypes
> Non-Rails Ruby Projects
> * Rake -- Ruby''s version of Make
> * RubyGems -- Packaging software
> 
> ======> 
> Lee Marlow
> IRC: mecraw
> Denver (Highlands Ranch), CO, USA
> 
> So far I''m just a Ruby/Rails voyeur.  I became
> interested when Dave Thomas
> mentioned Ruby at a Java conference.  I hope to do
> some personal projects in
> Rails, maybe my wedding site.  Hopefully Rails makes
> web development easy
> enough for a backend Java developer.
> 
> ======> 
> 
> Jason Alexander Hoffman
> PhD scientist at the Novartis Institute for
> Functional Genomic
> Master configurer behind TextDrive
> Live in La Jolla California, and am lucky to work
> with people who are
> everywhere
> 
> NIFG is all perl, java, python (in that order) and
> some ruby (me) but
> no Rails (yet?)
> My personal pet project is a bioinformatics web app
> in Rails.
> And I dream at night of a end-user hosting "control
> panel" in Rails.
> 
> ======> 
> Jason Alexander Hoffman
> PhD scientist at the Novartis Institute for
> Functional Genomic
> Master configurer behind TextDrive
> Live in La Jolla California, and am lucky to work
> with people who are
> everywhere
> 
> NIFG is all perl, java, python (in that order) and
> some ruby (me) but
> no Rails (yet?)
> My personal pet project is a bioinformatics web app
> in Rails.
> And I dream at night of a end-user hosting "control
> panel" in Rails.
> 
> ======> 
> I''m Sam Stephenson; 20 years old, unemployed, on
> leave from Virginia
> Polytechnic Institute, and currently living in
> Chicago, IL, US. A
> recent evaluation has demonstrated that I''m not
> really good at
> anything, but that doesn''t keep me from enjoying
> Rails.
> 
> I live for Ruby, I''m a huge fan of domain-specific
> languages, and I
> get really excited by introspection and all the
> stuff that comes with
> it. I like to build small things out of even smaller
> things.
> 
> I have a tendency to create projects and leave them
> unmaintained. As a
> subscriber to the Rails list, ou may have
> encountered two of those:
> Prick[1], an IRC quote application written in Rails,
> and Paginator
> Helper[2]. If you use Gtk+, there''s also my
> Gtk::MDI[3] library, which
> suffers the same fate.
> 
> I contribute trivial patches to Rails when I can.
> 
> My current project is Timber, a Rails application
> for Web magazines.
> It lets authors and editors collaborate on articles
> and makes it easy
> to lay out content. It''s similar to Textpattern[4]
> but significantly
> simpler. I''m also playing around with an interactive
> Web-based
> debugger for Rails which adds a live irb console to
> your error pages
> with XMLHttpRequest.
> 
> You can almost always find me on #rubyonrails as
> sam-.
> 
> ======> 
> I''m Joe Van Dyk.  I''ve been playing around with Ruby
> for about six
> months, and Rails about a month.  Neat stuff.
> 
> My "real job" is working for the Integrated Defense
> Systems division
> of Boeing.  My recent project there has been using
> Ruby for a GUI to
> view and control simulations.  As far as I know, I''m
> the only person
> at Boeing to use Ruby for anything, but hopefully
> that will change!
> 
> I''m also developing a real estate site using Rails. 
> Can''t wait until
> 0.9 comes out.
> 
> ======> 
> I am: Bob Sidebotham
> Vancouver, Canada
> 
> After spending 30 years writing software in various
> guises (anyone
> remember punched cards and paper tape?), I had
> pretty much burned out.
> I spent the last several years looking for another
> vocation. I''ve had
> some minor successes, such as an exhibit of
> hand-processed b&w
> photographs--which I''ve since webified at
> http://windsong.bc.ca/alonetogether). Recently,
> however, I discovered
> Ruby, and my interest in software was re-kindled.
> 
> Several years ago, I wrote the software for managing
> a small home
> delivery business that provides organic produce and
> groceries. I''m
> currently considering rewriting that now ancient
> system in Rails. It
> has to deal with the whole gamut of processes,
> including inventory
> management, supplier ordering, customer relations,
> customer ordering,
> warehouse operations, delivery routing, accounting,
> billing, and
> others.
> 
> Ruby and Rails look like they will provide a good
> foundation for
> creating a maintainable--maybe even elegant--system
> for this business.
> 
> ======> 
> Samuel Kvarnbrink
> Lives in Ume, Sweden. Working part-time as a system
> administrator at
> the university of Ume, otherwise a freelance
> developer.
> 
> Freelance: Working with the Ume Krio Corpus, which
> is a Rails app
> that''s used for managing and analyzing texts written
> in the Krio
> language for a research project. Krio, which is an
> Anglo-African Creole
> language spoken in various parts of West Africa,
> uses some phonetic
> characters for extra vowels and therefore the entire
> collection (which
> is HUGE and growing!) is encoded using UTF-16. I''ve
> implemented a very
> fast text scanner in C that interfaces with
> Oniguruma, and Rails is
> used to provide a good frontend for it and handle
> the DB part.
> 
> Day job: Working on a _huge_ administrative
> application for HUMlab, a
> computer lab for people from all disciplines (but
> with main focus on
> the humanities). The app will manage/create user
> accounts, handle all
> courses held in the lab (and follow-up surveys),
> handle reservations,
> provide an interface for an SNMP-based print quota
> system (which i
> wrote in Ruby, of course) and a lot of other stuff.
> The app basically
> contains of three components: a Rails frontend, an
> AR-powered utility
> that handles/creates accounts in OpenLDAP, and the
> print quota system
> (also AR-powered).
> 
> The app is currently in alpha/planning stage, but
> will replace a less
> maintainable CGI-based Ruby system I wrote a while
> ago. It''s going to
> be a _lot_ of work, but due to the efficiency of
> Rails I''m estimating
> it to be much less cumbersome than maintaining and
> developing the old
> app.
> 
> ======> 
> Michael Koziarski
> Live in Wellington New Zealand.
> Working for a Bank,  Java by day ruby by night.
> No public rails projects yet,  but something''s in
> the works.
> 
> ======> 
> Robert Bousquet
> Front-end developer at the University of Southern
> California
> Currently re-skinning the USC Scholar''s Portal
> front-end and working on
> the USC Digital Archive
> Daydreaming about building Rails apps instead.
> Also running freelance gig, Debut Web Design.
> 
> ======> 
> I''m Jens-Christian Fischer working at my company
> InVisible GmbH in Zurich,
> Switzerland.
> Our main line of business are intranet applications
> for large companies
> (in Lotus Notes mainly)
> 
> I have 13+ years of Lotus Notes experience and
> always dabbled in languages
> on the side (Pascal, Modula-2, Smalltalk, C (argh),
> C++ (AAARRRGGG), Java,
> awk, Perl, Python and now Ruby
> 
> I have several other companies/projects
> (neural-network stock trading [1],
> p2p email [2] and a semi-secret mud/mush inspired
> [3] rails project that I
> hope to have live in the next few weeks.
> 
> [1] http://www.ivorix.com
> [2] http://www.zappatanetworks.com
> [3] http://amuda.ch
> 
> ======> 
> Jeff Moss
> Sandy, Utah, USA (Salt Lake City suburbia)
> Currently attending University of Utah for a
> bachelors in business
> administration.
> Day Job: work for a long distance reseller,
> www.americom.com, where I am
> the only developer employed. Currently overhauling
> entire website to
> move it out of the early 90''s era, convinced boss to
> do it in rails, the
> best framework that I''ve ever investigated, by a
> long shot. I believe I
> have David to thank?
> Previous experience has been Perl and PHP, and
> before that I messed
> around in C/C++. In my free time I play with other
> languages and am one
> of you who starts many projects and finishes few to
> none due to other
> invasive interests, although my current project, an
> ebay tool that
> interfaces with their xml web services, has actually
> come quite far and
> appears to be finishable, assuming the demons don''t
> take me first.
> 
> ======> 
> Tobias Ltke
> Stranded German in Ottawa, Canada
> 
> Currently I''m doing contract and some consulting
> work as well as
> several own commercial and private projects.
> 100% Of my payed work is done in Rails at this
> point, i''m one of the lucky
> few.
> My best known project is probably
> http://www.snowdevil.ca , a
> full-fledged e-commerce system
> build on rails which hopefully hits its next
> milestone soon by selling
> some bloody snowboards.
> 
> Apart from snowdevil i have been working on Hieraki
> a collaborative
> book writing tool reusing proven concepts from wikis
> and tools like
> them. Hieraki has been progressing well and will
> probably receive a
> real announcement soon as it will be released under
> the MIT license.
> 
> My background is mainly static languages like c and
> c++ and
> unfortunately some java as well.
> After about 10 years of those you have seen it
> all...
> 
> Ruby rocks !
> 
> ======> 
> Hi, I''m Dan Peterson (danp in #rubyonrails) from
> Yuma, AZ. I work for
> the Yuma Educational Consortium which is comprised
> of the local high
> school district and one of the two elementary
> districts in the area as
> well as other various entities.
> 
> I''ve been using Ruby for mainly procedural
> text-processing for about
> four years now and I still do a lot of text data
> conversion and
> manipulation with it every day. I''m blown away by
> Rails and how well
> it all works together. I started out using it trying
> to write a new
> accounts system with linkage to our two payroll
> systems. That was a
> bit ambitious so I''ve put that on hold and am
> working on an app for
> tracking patches to our Oracle-based student
> information system and am
> having a lot of fun tinkering with it and especially
> trying out the
> new features that will appear in 0.9.
> 
> I can''t wait to implement more things for my
> customers with Rails;
> both to help them and to let me have fun doing it!
> :)
> 
> ======> 
> Michel Rasschaert from Paris, France.
> 
> I learn the basics of a lot of programming languages
> as a hobby (too
> many to write here) and I was very soon interested
> in Ruby. But it
> really is rails that made me use it for real at
> last.
> 
> Professionally I work for a bank doing Delphi work
> and hopefully
> migrating to Java and introducing some XP concepts
> (testing,
> continuous integration, IoC, etc.) but it''s hard.
> 
> In my spare time (not a lot regretfully) I work on a
> personal finance
> application on rails :)
> 
> ======> 
> I''ve been doing PHP development for 8 years but have
> just falled in
> love with Rails. I am currently a senior Physics
> major attending Reed
> College in Portland, Oregon.
> 
> Rails Projects:
> ----------------------
> The Conjuring Cabaret - http://magic.rufy.com/
> My first project was to port the first site I
> created (back in 1996) to
> Rails from an ugly PHP/MySQL setup. The new version
> has 752 LOC and is
> much more customizable.
> 
> Web Collaborator - http://webcollaborator.com/ (in
> progress)
> Again a port, but this time from a homebrewed MVC
> PHP backend to Rails.
> It has taken 8 hours to port 90% of the site to
> Rails compared to the
> two months of scattered development it took for the
> original site to be
> put together. Including libraries (like Smarty), the
> PHP version had 30
> KLOCs. Including Rails code, the Rails version has 3
> KLOCs (~600 lines
> of non-Rails code). This has been a HUGE improvement
> and will vastly
> speed up development time for this project. The
> Rails version should be
> up before the new year.
> 
> PATA - http://pataweb.net/
> I am in charge of revamping this site and have
> decided to do it with
> Rails.
> 
> Reed College
> I am going to be building various internal utility
> pages for Reed
> College''s web presence with Rails.
> 
> ======> 
> My name is Sarah Wedde and I live in Petone, New
> Zealand.
> 
> I''m currently trying to decrapify my weblog thingamy
> (http://onebefore.org/), make myself an application
> that will totally
> organise my life and fold my laundry, and I''m having
> a bit of a play around
> with something to make use of the OpenSource
> Shakespeare database I
> downloaded during a bout of procrastination.
> 
> ======> 
> My namie is Shyam Gopale and I live in Pune, India.
> 
> Currently using rails for developing a web based
> portal
> for a friend. New to both Ruby and Rails. In my day
> job
> I develop "Identity Management" products.
> 
> ======> 
> Curt Sampson
> CTO, tabemo.com
> Tokyo, Japan
> 
> I''m building a (mostly mobile) website for
> time-based restaurant
> discounts (e.g., better discounts when the
> restaurant is not busy).
> Currently I''m battling my way out of PHP and MySQL
> hell, legacy of
> a previous IT administration here.
> 
> Previously I was Chief Architect at vanten.com,
> where my main project
> was an enterprise management system for a national
> wireless ISP in
> Japan. That was Java on top of PostgreSQL, and while
> PostgreSQL can
> compete with the best of them, it increased my
> frustrations with Java
> to the point I started looking for a new language.
> 
> ======> 
> Name:  Jens Himmelreich
> What:  Working at hanke multimediahaus
> (www.hmmh.de),
>        Ruby/Rails voyeur
> Where: Living in Bremen, Germany
> Work:  ecommerce-Websites (e.g. www.bonprix.de)
> 
> ======> 
> Name: Magnus Bodin
> Employer: IBM
> Country, City: Sweden, Malm
> 
> Current project: Private Web project, will be public
> 2005Q1
> 
> We are currently two rails-fans at the IBM-office in
> Malm.
> I hope that this will lead to something in the
> future.
> 
> =======> 
> Who:   Stefano Cobianchi
> Where: Milan, Italy
> What:  Using Ruby everywhere I can (currently it
> powers the server-side
>        of our email-marketing application); trying
> to promote Rails
>        as a replacement for our ugly home-brewed PHP
> frameworks (urgh)
> Why:   Well, given the choice among PHP, Java and
> Ruby, what would a
>        sane person do? :-)
> 
> ======> 
> Erno Mononen
> Living in  Jyvskyl, Finland
> 
> Developing sustainability  management  software
> using Java,  new  both
> to Ruby and Rails.  I''ve been experimenting with
> Rails for couple
> weeks now and I have to say I''m really impressed by
> the productivity
> boost that  it offers. Looking for opportunities to
> use it in my daily
> work.
> 
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Leon Breedt

Currently hiding from creditors (kidding) in Auckland, New Zealand
Working for a transaction/payments processing company

Porting a large amount of custom protocol based stuff over to web
services backed by Rails, and converting client APIs to either Ruby or
.NET (away from Perl). Damage^HHHHHHManagement has yet to find out
about this subversion, but they''re happy with the speed of development
and happy that API & web interface have feature parity, so there ;)

Public Rails projects:
   ActionService

Dominic Marks (djwm), London, England

Designing a multifunction web application which will be used to manage every 
aspect of an IT department, a mixture of resource tracking, problem tracking, 
reporting, and management. This application will become the backbone of a new 
Business which is to launch later this year.

I''m hoping rails will make it possible to develop what is quite an
unwieldly
application, consisting of a large number of M-M relationships in a natural 
and efficient manner.

-- 
Dominic

On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 19:52:26 -0600, Curt Hibbs
<curt-fk6st7iWb8MAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> On December 14th, 2004 David Heinemeier Hansson sent this to the mailing
> list:
> 
>   I''m seeing a lot of new names on the list. Could
>   we perhaps do a round of introductions? That would
>   also be a great first post, if you haven''t had a
>   chance to contribute yet. The basics should include
>   your name, your organization, your country and city,
>   and the project you''re currently working on.
Erik Howard
Portland, Oregon

Currently working on Ruby PayPal and LinkPoint gateway modules, and a
HelpDesk rails app. Also getting ready to launch a web hosting company
this month. In the mean time, I''m also a .Net and J2EE consultant and
trying to get at least a few hours sleep a night.

-Erik

Brian Luczkiewicz
Living in Pittsburgh PA
http://zorander.net/

Studying Computer Science at CMU and working remotely for a 
company in Buffalo, NY writing CNC motion control software in 
Python/C and a yet-to-be-announced specialty e-commerce solution 
on rails which should go live sometime this spring.

For me, Rails is about the coolest thing I''ve come across since
discovering
dynamic typing with python four years ago. I look forward very much to seeing
where Rails goes in the next 12-24 months.

On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 19:52 -0600, Curt Hibbs wrote:
> On December 14th, 2004 David Heinemeier Hansson sent this to the mailing
> list:
> 
>   I''m seeing a lot of new names on the list. Could
>   we perhaps do a round of introductions? That would
>   also be a great first post, if you haven''t had a
>   chance to contribute yet. The basics should include
>   your name, your organization, your country and city,
>   and the project you''re currently working on.
> 
Kent Sibilev,
Java/Ruby developer plus Unix SysAdmin.

Rails project:
BugTrack system I''ve put up together for my teams.

Non-Rails projects:
Several commercial web sites with a home-grown framework.
I''m planning to use Rails for the future projects.

On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 19:52, Curt Hibbs wrote:
> On December 14th, 2004 David Heinemeier Hansson sent this to the mailing
> list:
> 
>   I''m seeing a lot of new names on the list. Could
>   we perhaps do a round of introductions? That would
>   also be a great first post, if you haven''t had a
>   chance to contribute yet. The basics should include
>   your name, your organization, your country and city,
>   and the project you''re currently working on.
> 
Tim Freund
Java/Python/Ruby/etc programmer
Olathe, KS (Suburb of Kansas City, MO) USA

I''m working on a RoR application to manage the internal administration
of a labor union local as a side gig while getting people excited about
RoR at my day job via presentations and prototypes.  I hope to get more
side jobs with Ruby and RoR as I become proficient with both.

-- 
Timothy Freund
digital achievement incorporated
http://www.digital-achievement.com

Bill Katz
Neo-pro fiction writer, entrepreneur, programmer/scientist
Arlington, Virginia

After prototyping a small PHP app with some writing classes, I''m just
starting to use RoR to build Writertopia, a system for creative writing
workshops and resources.

Linux, web development, patterns, CSS, MySQL, just about the entire stack
was new to me a couple of years ago. It''s been a fun ride, especially
RoR,
and I look forward to learning from everyone and contributing what I can. My
background: no punch cards for me, but I did start with BASIC on a TRS-80
and cassette tape storage unit; various languages and projects going through
Stanford; long time spent with C/C++ for 3D image processing, pattern
recognition, volume visualization, optimization problems, etc over the last
15 years.

Robby Russell wrote:
> Robby Russell of PLANET ARGON 
> Live in Portland, Oregon USA
> http://www.planetargon.com/
> 
> Currently working on:
> Ruby Shipping API http://rubyforge.org/projects/shipping/
> and pgCart (potentially porting to Rails)
Erik Howard wrote:
> Erik Howard
> Portland, Oregon
>
> Currently working on Ruby PayPal and LinkPoint gateway modules, and a
> HelpDesk rails app. Also getting ready to launch a web hosting company
> this month. In the mean time, I''m also a .Net and J2EE consultant
and
> trying to get at least a few hours sleep a night.

I moved to Portland last year and do Rails dev for a living.  Lucas
Carlson is also in town.  Time for pdx.rails.rb?

jeremy

> I moved to Portland last year and do Rails dev for a living.  Lucas
> Carlson is also in town.  Time for pdx.rails.rb?
> 
> jeremy
Sounds like a good idea to me. I knew a few other rails lurkers in town.

-Erik

Hi Everyone,

  I''m Lee Nelson, owner of Naxos Technology in Rockville, MD, 
an engineering consulting firm.  We do web apps, windows apps,
and embedded systems (TI DSP).  

  One ongoing project is a online product access system
and shopping cart for a publishing company, and I am taking 
advantage of an upgrade cycle to begin the transition from 
procedural Perl to OO Ruby and Rails.

  If it works out, and it looks like it will, we will be 
switching to Ruby as our standard web language.  

  -Lee

On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 19:52:26 -0600, Curt Hibbs wrote
> On December 14th, 2004 David Heinemeier Hansson sent this to the mailing
> list:
> 
>   I''m seeing a lot of new names on the list. Could
>   we perhaps do a round of introductions? That would
>   also be a great first post, if you haven''t had a
>   chance to contribute yet. The basics should include
>   your name, your organization, your country and city,
>   and the project you''re currently working on.
> 
> Its been a couple months since then (ancient history in Rails-time), 
> I''m updating my Rails presentation, and I''d like to
include some information
> about what is being done with Rails.
> 
> Below I listed all of the responses from the first round. If your response
> is no longer current, please post a correction. If you missed the first
> round of introductions, please use this as an excuse to let everyone 
> know what you are doing.
> 
> Thanks,
> Curt
> 
> PS
>   Note to Bob Sidebotham: Yes, I remember punched cards & paper 
> tape!  :-)
> 
> ======= First Round Posts ======> 
> David Heinemeier Hansson,
> Working with 37signals
> Live in Copenhagen, Denmark, but are working with
> people in Chicago, US
> Basecamp and the forthcoming Writeboard
> 
> ======> 
> Scott Barron
> Doing rails stuff for Ohio University
> Live in Athens, Ohio
> Public projects:
>   Elite Journal
>   Recipe Box
> 
> As far as work related projects at OU go, I''ve got applications
that
> handle things as simple as a student employee schedule, to an app 
> that creates and maintains a schedule of movies for the
university''s
> movie channel, to an app that maintains and handles billing for the dining
> hall, and a few more along those lines.  All future projects here 
> will be developed in rails and several of our PHP projects have been 
> ported to rails.
> 
> ======> 
> Pelle Brændgaard
> Working independently on a range of crypto and financial 
> applications. Live permanently in Panama City, Panama but am 
> temporarily in Copenhagen, Denmark.
> 
> Working on a "topsecret" project using Rails and a range of 
> opensource java code.
> 
> ======> 
> Johan Sörensen
> Currently a freelancer/consultant
> Living in the south of sweden at the moment, currently looking for
> work that''d allow me to use Rails (of course ;)) in one way or
> another.
> 
> On the subject of public personal Rails projects I have Collaboa,
> which is a communitywikiforumthingie I''ve created for the swedish
mac
> dev site http://cocoa.se. There is a Trac install available at
> http://collaboa.cocoa.se/trac if anyone wants to have a peek...
> 
> ======> 
> Demetrius Arraes Nunes
> Working on my masters degree in PUC-RJ, Brazil
> I also work on my own e-learning start-up company: Interface Ltd
> (http://www.interface-ti.com.br) (we use .NET there, for now... ;-) )
> I live in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
> My masters degree is about a web modeling technique called OOHDM (Object
> Oriented Hypermedia Design Method) that was "invented" by my 
> professor, Daniel Schwabe (Phd-UCLA), some 10 years ago, that adds a 
> distinct "navigational modeling" step in the development cycle.
In
> this step, you map conceptual objects to navigational objects, 
> define navigational contexts, indexes, links, anchors and other 
> navigational primitives. I am developing a application that is the 
> same time the modeling environment (using OOHDM) and the resulting 
> application itself in a kind o wiki-like mode where you can edit not 
> only the data, but also the model (and metamodel). The last (and 
> HUGE) step in my project is to port the MySql implementation to a 
> RDF database called Sesame, and that means porting ActiveRecord from 
> relational to semantic/rdf. God (and please, David!) help me... :-O 
> My deadline is februrary 28th. I am already done with 80% of the 
> relational version.
> 
> ======> 
> Chris McGrath
> Currently freelance contractor based in Dublin, Ireland working on VB
> and ASP Stuff (urgh)
> Looking to find work in Rails, or convice my current place to convert
> some of thier apps to Rails.
> Working on a personal finance style application as a means of 
> learning Rails and getting rid of GnuCash. I''m hoping to
contribute
> something to the project in the new year, even if it''s just a
couple
> of minor bugfixes :)
> 
> ======> 
> Peter Johansson
> Working as consultant for a large Fortune 500 company
> Live and work in Stockholm, Sweden
> 
> Just beginning to learn Rails (and Ruby) on my spare time and have
> planned to convert a couple of PHP-based apps to Rails. Previously
> I''ve worked most with PHP, Perl and Java.
> 
> ======> 
> Dale Hawkins
> Denver (Littleton), Colorado, US
> 
> I have written a couple utilities (a worklog/billing application), 
> and I am working on porting a large, ugly php application used by 
> government agents (no kidding).  The backend DB is sybase (oh, joy! 
> :-( ), so I''ve been working on a sybase adapter whenever I get 
> around to it.  (But I have another job and kids, so progress is very 
> slow much of the time).
> 
> I''ve been meaning to start a software project management tool
using
> rails.  Along the lines of trac but with some scheduling, resource
> tracking, and support for story card/use case design.
> 
> ======> 
> Marcel Molina Jr.
> "Doing rails stuff for" Simon''s Rock College, a small
liberal arts college
> in
> the wilds of Massachusetts that accepts "gifted" students into 
> college two years earlier than usual I live in The Berkshires, South 
> Western Massachusetts
> 
> Currently working on an online admissions application, errr, application
> so that prospective students can apply to the college online. Also writing
> an application to register student/faculty/staff machines on the network.
> Planning on porting all (or most) existing web applications to Rails.
> Moving toward doing pretty much *everything* here with Rails (if web
> related) or Ruby if not, when appropriate (which is most of the time).
> 
> noradio on the #rubyonrails channel, much to david''s distress.
> 
> ======> 
> Jarkko Laine
> Student, athlete and entrepreneur
> Graduating from Tampere University of Technology (hopefully) next 
> year Running my own company, O''Design Live and prosper in Tampere,
> Finland (that''s next to Nokia, people) Working on my first 
> commercial Rails project at the moment (a simple CMS) As a personal 
> project I''m developing a Basecamp for athlete groups and trainers,
> including training diary etc... jarkko (surprise?) at #rubyonrails
> 
> ======> 
> Hello, my name is Steve Kellock and I''m a Rails junkie.
> what-a-day on IRC #rubyonrails
> Indy Developer
> Barrie (just north of Toronto), Canada
> 
> - Completed a sales application for a client.
> - Currently working on a
> sports-team-management-extranet-type-of-app-thingy (it''d be a lot
> clearer with screen shots).
> - Have a few projects lined up for 2005... guess what I''m going to
> write them with?  (hint: it''s not DOS batch files)
> 
> ======> 
> Kevin Evans, University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK
> 
> Currently working on a Rails based blogging application for the
> (http://www.glam.ac.uk) University. Very close to going live, just
> struggling with fcgi stability :-(
> 
> regards
> Kevin Evans
> IS Development Manager
> 
> ======> 
> Tanner Burson
> Live in the great state of Oklahoma in the US.
> 
> Learning rails in my spare time, for my own personal projects at the
> moment.  Currently writing a multi-user task list of sorts.  Hoping 
> to eventually find a client willing to take the plunge as well
> 
> ======> 
> Austin Moody
> MedAlliance Management Group - a small physician consulting firm in
> Johnson City, Tennessee.
> Completely rewritten our old electronic health claims manager in
> Rails/Ruby from PHP/Python.  Also created a custom intranet portal
> manager and a few other small specialized apps.
> austinetsu on #rubyonrails
> 
> ======> 
> I''m Rick Bradley, working as 1 of 4 people (2 developers - the
other
> developer is also on this list) at Base Systems (www.basesys.com)
>  here in Nashville, TN.  We''re deploying a few new products for
the medical
> industry (Asterisk-based voice recording systems, handheld 
> applications, etc.) and will be converting our medical workflow 
> system (currently serving transcription providers) from PHP to Ruby 
> and Rails over the next few months.
> 
> Since our company is so small we''re heavy into magnifying our
> productivity.  We''ve looked at (best estimate) close to 100
different
> frameworks in multiple languages over the past year and only Rails
> appears to actually reduce the amount of work we have to do.
> 
> I''m also gradually converting my various personal toys over to
using
> Rails as well -- I started with the DemoApp accountomatic which is
> working very well for me since porting it over to Rails.  Next is
> probably my jukebox system (rdtj.sourceforge.net), which looks like 
> it will end up being Ruby+Madeleine+RGL+FreeBASE+Rails.
> 
> ======> 
> - Sascha Ebach
> - Entrepeneur
> - Living in Troisdorf Germany, which is right in between of Cologne and
> Bonn.
> - MCMS which stands for Magical Content Management Solution
> MCMS will a try to make a cms that ppl want to actually use, but
> nevertheless will have a lot of functionality. It will be magical 
> and it will be open source.
> 
> ROADMAP
> ======> * Unique concentration on usability, web standards and
accessibility
> * Contentrepository as a tree, so you will be able easily extend the
> functionality of a corporate website to a blog with comments, a 
> forum, a shop, a whatever. Something along the lines of ezpublish 
> and drupal. * Versioning * WYSIWYG editing (with FCKEditor, which I 
> find amazing) * different views and the administration, so new users 
> and powerusers can feel at home * Maybe even edit-in-place, like you 
> can see in Bitflux CMS, or LIMB. But I am uncertain about that as I 
> think edit in place is not always the most generally applicable 
> solution, esp. if you wanna have a cms which handles * multiple 
> diffrent websites under one adminstration * media repository * make 
> it possible to turn it in a hostable solution (this one will 
> probably by closed source) * lots of other things
> 
> Current progress is 10%. As I am working on this alone, have a business
> to run (where I can not always program in ruby) and my family to care
> about, progress is not going to be very fast. Hopefully it will be
> something usable within the next 6-12 months. If luck strikes me and 
> if what they say about rails is true, than it might be earlier ;)
> 
> As soon as I have something usable I will create an enironment where
> collaboration is possible. If you wanna help, please wait a little while
> until I get my act together. Which (I feel sometimes) could never happen
> ;) I will announce it on this list.
> 
> ======> 
> Sean Leach
> Ventura, CA
> irc: kicker
> 
> Working on several personal projects with rails.  RSS feed 
> aggregator, stat management application as well a small ecommerce 
> app, probably won''t finish any of them :)
> 
> I do 99% of my work in Python when I can, and will continue to do so,
> but Rails is by far the best web framework I have used (and I guarantee
> I have used/built apps with pretty much all of them from the PHP 
> ones to the Java ones etc.).  To be honest, I wish there was a 
> Python on Rails like has been discussed.  Ruby is a fine language, 
> but I know Python in and out and prefer it over Ruby (please do not 
> begin a language war).
> 
> ======> 
> Jim Weirich
> Consultant for Compuware,
> Currently working on-site at a LARGE financial company
> Java programmer by day, Ruby programmer by night (and some day too!)
> Rails Projects:
> * Storycards -- XP like planning tool
> * Misc prototypes
> Non-Rails Ruby Projects
> * Rake -- Ruby''s version of Make
> * RubyGems -- Packaging software
> 
> ======> 
> Lee Marlow
> IRC: mecraw
> Denver (Highlands Ranch), CO, USA
> 
> So far I''m just a Ruby/Rails voyeur.  I became interested when
Dave Thomas
> mentioned Ruby at a Java conference.  I hope to do some personal 
> projects in Rails, maybe my wedding site.  Hopefully Rails makes web 
> development easy enough for a backend Java developer.
> 
> ======> 
> Jason Alexander Hoffman
> PhD scientist at the Novartis Institute for Functional Genomic
> Master configurer behind TextDrive
> Live in La Jolla California, and am lucky to work with people who are
> everywhere
> 
> NIFG is all perl, java, python (in that order) and some ruby (me) but
> no Rails (yet?)
> My personal pet project is a bioinformatics web app in Rails.
> And I dream at night of a end-user hosting "control panel" in
Rails.
> 
> ======> 
> Jason Alexander Hoffman
> PhD scientist at the Novartis Institute for Functional Genomic
> Master configurer behind TextDrive
> Live in La Jolla California, and am lucky to work with people who are
> everywhere
> 
> NIFG is all perl, java, python (in that order) and some ruby (me) but
> no Rails (yet?)
> My personal pet project is a bioinformatics web app in Rails.
> And I dream at night of a end-user hosting "control panel" in
Rails.
> 
> ======> 
> I''m Sam Stephenson; 20 years old, unemployed, on leave from
Virginia
> Polytechnic Institute, and currently living in Chicago, IL, US. A
> recent evaluation has demonstrated that I''m not really good at
> anything, but that doesn''t keep me from enjoying Rails.
> 
> I live for Ruby, I''m a huge fan of domain-specific languages, and
I
> get really excited by introspection and all the stuff that comes with
> it. I like to build small things out of even smaller things.
> 
> I have a tendency to create projects and leave them unmaintained. As 
> a subscriber to the Rails list, ou may have encountered two of 
> those: Prick[1], an IRC quote application written in Rails, and Paginator
> Helper[2]. If you use Gtk+, there''s also my Gtk::MDI[3] library, 
> which suffers the same fate.
> 
> I contribute trivial patches to Rails when I can.
> 
> My current project is Timber, a Rails application for Web magazines.
> It lets authors and editors collaborate on articles and makes it easy
> to lay out content. It''s similar to Textpattern[4] but
significantly
> simpler. I''m also playing around with an interactive Web-based
> debugger for Rails which adds a live irb console to your error pages
> with XMLHttpRequest.
> 
> You can almost always find me on #rubyonrails as sam-.
> 
> ======> 
> I''m Joe Van Dyk.  I''ve been playing around with Ruby for
about six
> months, and Rails about a month.  Neat stuff.
> 
> My "real job" is working for the Integrated Defense Systems
division
> of Boeing.  My recent project there has been using Ruby for a GUI to
> view and control simulations.  As far as I know, I''m the only
person
> at Boeing to use Ruby for anything, but hopefully that will change!
> 
> I''m also developing a real estate site using Rails. 
Can''t wait until
> 0.9 comes out.
> 
> ======> 
> I am: Bob Sidebotham
> Vancouver, Canada
> 
> After spending 30 years writing software in various guises (anyone
> remember punched cards and paper tape?), I had pretty much burned 
> out. I spent the last several years looking for another vocation. 
> I''ve had some minor successes, such as an exhibit of
hand-processed b&w
> photographs--which I''ve since webified at
> http://windsong.bc.ca/alonetogether). Recently, however, I discovered
> Ruby, and my interest in software was re-kindled.
> 
> Several years ago, I wrote the software for managing a small home
> delivery business that provides organic produce and groceries. I''m
> currently considering rewriting that now ancient system in Rails. It
> has to deal with the whole gamut of processes, including inventory
> management, supplier ordering, customer relations, customer ordering,
> warehouse operations, delivery routing, accounting, billing, and
> others.
> 
> Ruby and Rails look like they will provide a good foundation for
> creating a maintainable--maybe even elegant--system for this business.
> 
> ======> 
> Samuel Kvarnbrink
> Lives in Umeå, Sweden. Working part-time as a system administrator at
> the university of Umeå, otherwise a freelance developer.
> 
> Freelance: Working with the Umeå Krio Corpus, which is a Rails app
> that''s used for managing and analyzing texts written in the Krio
> language for a research project. Krio, which is an Anglo-African Creole
> language spoken in various parts of West Africa, uses some phonetic
> characters for extra vowels and therefore the entire collection 
> (which is HUGE and growing!) is encoded using UTF-16. I''ve 
> implemented a very fast text scanner in C that interfaces with 
> Oniguruma, and Rails is used to provide a good frontend for it and 
> handle the DB part.
> 
> Day job: Working on a _huge_ administrative application for HUMlab, a
> computer lab for people from all disciplines (but with main focus on
> the humanities). The app will manage/create user accounts, handle all
> courses held in the lab (and follow-up surveys), handle reservations,
> provide an interface for an SNMP-based print quota system (which i
> wrote in Ruby, of course) and a lot of other stuff. The app basically
> contains of three components: a Rails frontend, an AR-powered utility
> that handles/creates accounts in OpenLDAP, and the print quota system
> (also AR-powered).
> 
> The app is currently in alpha/planning stage, but will replace a less
> maintainable CGI-based Ruby system I wrote a while ago. It''s going
to
> be a _lot_ of work, but due to the efficiency of Rails I''m
estimating
> it to be much less cumbersome than maintaining and developing the old
> app.
> 
> ======> 
> Michael Koziarski
> Live in Wellington New Zealand.
> Working for a Bank,  Java by day ruby by night.
> No public rails projects yet,  but something''s in the works.
> 
> ======> 
> Robert Bousquet
> Front-end developer at the University of Southern California
> Currently re-skinning the USC Scholar''s Portal front-end and
working
> on the USC Digital Archive Daydreaming about building Rails apps instead.
> Also running freelance gig, Debut Web Design.
> 
> ======> 
> I''m Jens-Christian Fischer working at my company InVisible GmbH in
> Zurich, Switzerland. Our main line of business are intranet 
> applications for large companies
> (in Lotus Notes mainly)
> 
> I have 13+ years of Lotus Notes experience and always dabbled in languages
> on the side (Pascal, Modula-2, Smalltalk, C (argh), C++ (AAARRRGGG), 
> Java, awk, Perl, Python and now Ruby
> 
> I have several other companies/projects (neural-network stock 
> trading [1], p2p email [2] and a semi-secret mud/mush inspired [3] 
> rails project that I hope to have live in the next few weeks.
> 
> [1] http://www.ivorix.com
> [2] http://www.zappatanetworks.com
> [3] http://amuda.ch
> 
> ======> 
> Jeff Moss
> Sandy, Utah, USA (Salt Lake City suburbia)
> Currently attending University of Utah for a bachelors in business
> administration.
> Day Job: work for a long distance reseller, www.americom.com, where 
> I am the only developer employed. Currently overhauling entire 
> website to move it out of the early 90''s era, convinced boss to do
> it in rails, the best framework that I''ve ever investigated, by a 
> long shot. I believe I have David to thank? Previous experience has 
> been Perl and PHP, and before that I messed around in C/C++. In my 
> free time I play with other languages and am one of you who starts 
> many projects and finishes few to none due to other invasive 
> interests, although my current project, an ebay tool that interfaces 
> with their xml web services, has actually come quite far and appears 
> to be finishable, assuming the demons don''t take me first.
> 
> ======> 
> Tobias Lütke
> Stranded German in Ottawa, Canada
> 
> Currently I''m doing contract and some consulting work as well as
> several own commercial and private projects.
> 100% Of my payed work is done in Rails at this point, i''m one of
the
> lucky few. My best known project is probably http://www.snowdevil.ca 
> , a full-fledged e-commerce system build on rails which hopefully 
> hits its next milestone soon by selling some bloody snowboards.
> 
> Apart from snowdevil i have been working on Hieraki a collaborative
> book writing tool reusing proven concepts from wikis and tools like
> them. Hieraki has been progressing well and will probably receive a
> real announcement soon as it will be released under the MIT license.
> 
> My background is mainly static languages like c and c++ and
> unfortunately some java as well.
> After about 10 years of those you have seen it all...
> 
> Ruby rocks !
> 
> ======> 
> Hi, I''m Dan Peterson (danp in #rubyonrails) from Yuma, AZ. I work
for
> the Yuma Educational Consortium which is comprised of the local high
> school district and one of the two elementary districts in the area 
> as well as other various entities.
> 
> I''ve been using Ruby for mainly procedural text-processing for
about
> four years now and I still do a lot of text data conversion and
> manipulation with it every day. I''m blown away by Rails and how
well
> it all works together. I started out using it trying to write a new
> accounts system with linkage to our two payroll systems. That was a
> bit ambitious so I''ve put that on hold and am working on an app
for
> tracking patches to our Oracle-based student information system and 
> am having a lot of fun tinkering with it and especially trying out 
> the new features that will appear in 0.9.
> 
> I can''t wait to implement more things for my customers with Rails;
> both to help them and to let me have fun doing it! :)
> 
> ======> 
> Michel Rasschaert from Paris, France.
> 
> I learn the basics of a lot of programming languages as a hobby (too
> many to write here) and I was very soon interested in Ruby. But it
> really is rails that made me use it for real at last.
> 
> Professionally I work for a bank doing Delphi work and hopefully
> migrating to Java and introducing some XP concepts (testing,
> continuous integration, IoC, etc.) but it''s hard.
> 
> In my spare time (not a lot regretfully) I work on a personal finance
> application on rails :)
> 
> ======> 
> I''ve been doing PHP development for 8 years but have just falled
in
> love with Rails. I am currently a senior Physics major attending Reed
> College in Portland, Oregon.
> 
> Rails Projects:
> ----------------------
> The Conjuring Cabaret - http://magic.rufy.com/
> My first project was to port the first site I created (back in 1996) 
> to Rails from an ugly PHP/MySQL setup. The new version has 752 LOC 
> and is much more customizable.
> 
> Web Collaborator - http://webcollaborator.com/ (in progress)
> Again a port, but this time from a homebrewed MVC PHP backend to Rails.
> It has taken 8 hours to port 90% of the site to Rails compared to the
> two months of scattered development it took for the original site to 
> be put together. Including libraries (like Smarty), the PHP version 
> had 30 KLOCs. Including Rails code, the Rails version has 3 KLOCs 
> (~600 lines of non-Rails code). This has been a HUGE improvement and 
> will vastly speed up development time for this project. The Rails 
> version should be up before the new year.
> 
> PATA - http://pataweb.net/
> I am in charge of revamping this site and have decided to do it with
> Rails.
> 
> Reed College
> I am going to be building various internal utility pages for Reed
> College''s web presence with Rails.
> 
> ======> 
> My name is Sarah Wedde and I live in Petone, New Zealand.
> 
> I''m currently trying to decrapify my weblog thingamy
> (http://onebefore.org/), make myself an application that will totally
> organise my life and fold my laundry, and I''m having a bit of a
play
> around with something to make use of the OpenSource Shakespeare 
> database I downloaded during a bout of procrastination.
> 
> ======> 
> My namie is Shyam Gopale and I live in Pune, India.
> 
> Currently using rails for developing a web based portal
> for a friend. New to both Ruby and Rails. In my day job
> I develop "Identity Management" products.
> 
> ======> 
> Curt Sampson
> CTO, tabemo.com
> Tokyo, Japan
> 
> I''m building a (mostly mobile) website for time-based restaurant
> discounts (e.g., better discounts when the restaurant is not busy).
> Currently I''m battling my way out of PHP and MySQL hell, legacy of
> a previous IT administration here.
> 
> Previously I was Chief Architect at vanten.com, where my main project
> was an enterprise management system for a national wireless ISP in
> Japan. That was Java on top of PostgreSQL, and while PostgreSQL can
> compete with the best of them, it increased my frustrations with Java
> to the point I started looking for a new language.
> 
> ======> 
> Name:  Jens Himmelreich
> What:  Working at hanke multimediahaus (www.hmmh.de),
>        Ruby/Rails voyeur
> Where: Living in Bremen, Germany
> Work:  ecommerce-Websites (e.g. www.bonprix.de)
> 
> ======> 
> Name: Magnus Bodin
> Employer: IBM
> Country, City: Sweden, Malmö
> 
> Current project: Private Web project, will be public 2005Q1
> 
> We are currently two rails-fans at the IBM-office in Malmö.
> I hope that this will lead to something in the future.
> 
> =======> 
> Who:   Stefano Cobianchi
> Where: Milan, Italy
> What:  Using Ruby everywhere I can (currently it powers the server-side
>        of our email-marketing application); trying to promote Rails
>        as a replacement for our ugly home-brewed PHP frameworks 
> (urgh) Why:   Well, given the choice among PHP, Java and Ruby, what 
> would a       sane person do? :-)
> 
> ======> 
> Erno Mononen
> Living in  Jyväskylä, Finland
> 
> Developing sustainability  management  software using Java,  new 
>  both to Ruby and Rails.  I''ve been experimenting with Rails for
couple
> weeks now and I have to say I''m really impressed by the
productivity
> boost that  it offers. Looking for opportunities to use it in my 
> daily work.
> 
> ======= End ======> 
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Francisco Hernandez	
Live in Los Angeles, California
still in the learning ruby/rails phase, but writing an app to learn on, 
consists of a custom CMS for a local art gallery in downtown, this 
application will keep track of all the works displayed at exhibits, 
artist profiles, schedule, news, artist''s works, etc

Francisco Hernandez	
Live in Los Angeles, California
still in the learning ruby/rails phase, but writing an app to learn on, 
consists of a custom CMS for a local art gallery in downtown, this 
application will keep track of all the works displayed at exhibits, 
artist profiles, schedule, news, artist''s works, etc

Hello all.  I''ve been lurking on the rails list for a week or two
here.  I found myself more and more interested in the rails posts on
Ruby-talk, and when I found out there was a rails list I signed right
up!

Anyway, I started on rails after reading Curt''s Onlamp article. 
Current Rails projects include:

Recipe Browser.  Hosted on Rubyforge.  Had a non-rails version up for
a while, but Curts article convinced me to migrate to a rails
implementation (one more hurdle, and I''ll be posting 0.4 on
Rubyforge).  (http://rubyforge.org/projects/recipe/, screenshots at
http://recipe.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?ScreenShots)

Long Distance Chess.  Also hosted on Rubyforge.  Also had a non-rails
version up and running, but am migrating to Rails. 
(http://rubyforge.org/projects/chess/, and a screenshot at
http://chess.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?ScreenShots).  I intend to get
the next release posted on ruby forge after the 0.4 Recipe Browser
release.

Who: Hans. J. Jagla  - ("theHantze" in most places)
Where: Sydney, Australia
What: Longtime lurker, about to take the plunge and port some of my 
Coldfusion apps
to rails. Currently I am re-designing a Tourism Operator reservation system.
Any other sydneysiders on here?

Brian Terlson
Minneapolis, MN
Attending U of M - anyone else?

I work for two small businesses doing mainly ASP development (and I 
don''t like it one bit).  Other than that, I''m a full time
student and gamer.

Currently working on:

In the appartment here we have 12 people across 3 rooms hooked up to a 
private LAN.  We often play games, and often watch demos of the games 
later just for fun.  I am working on a RoR application that will manage 
a demos database, keeping tabs on who plays, who wins, what the teams 
are, whate game it was, the actual demo file, etc.  We also, naturally, 
have to share a ton of files like patches for the games and other 
miscelanious files.  So... I want a general architecture to handle these 
types of files as well.

This is all mostly a learning project so I can be more familiar with 
Rails.  I''ve found its a good one, since it involves nearly every 
database relation, lots of models, lots of views, lots of controllers, 
but overall it doesn''t seem to complex... which of course could be just
because its being done in Rails!

Alexander Payne (al3x), Washington, DC USA

Organization: REDACTED ;)  I can at least say by way of previous 
experience that I''ve architected some, uh, "large scale" web 
applications in PHP.  I''m loving playing with Rails so much that
I''m
trying to slip it into projects at work.

Project: just for fun, yet another blog engine.  I''ve been taking hints
from EliteJournal, Tentacle, RubyTwaddle, and the other fine work out 
there, but doing things my way.  One branch will power my personal 
weblog (http://www.al3x.net) and the other will have a bunch of extra 
features for running a group MP3/music blog.

Once that''s done I''ll have to find something else, lest I come
home one
day without Rails to code!

- al3x

Lucas Carlson
Portland, Oregon
http://tech.rufy.com/

Rails apps:
	* Web Collaborator - http://webcollaborator.com/
	* The Conjuring Cabaret - http://magic.rufy.com/
	* S5 Presents - http://s5presents.com/ ( 
http://s5presents.com/s5presents-1.0.tgz )
	* PATA Web - http://pataweb.net/
	* Reed College events calendar
	* Upcoming eCommerce site

Ruby libraries
	* Payment - http://payment.rufy.com/
	* CreditCard - http://rubyforge.org/projects/creditcard/

I started when Rails was just 3 months old and have been loving it ever 
since. For the sites that I have ported from PHP, the code is generally 
1/8 the size and development is many times faster. I am loving it. :)

-Lucas Carlson
http://www.rufy.com/

My name is James Stallings, and I am old enough to remember the Sinclair
zx80, which was a hot item among the technorati I attended college with
the first time around, working on a computer science degree I never
finished (ouch!)

I got hired out of school and have worked in the computer industry either
as a programmer, sysadmin, or consultant ever since. In my last IT
incarnation I was a storage management consultant for Veritas Software.

Presently I am pursuing an associates degree in Fine Arts (my other love
is image-making) WHICH I WILL DAMN WELL FINISH :) (provided the demons
don''t take me first (Hi Jeffrey) ;)

I''ve done assembly on a bunch of old procs, quit when I learned C back
in
''88, did a lot of dbase stuff back then too (anybody remember
Ashton-Tate?)

Then I went and lived on an island for a while, being a surfer-boy/sailboat
bum, financed my antics with Borland C and custom bar/restaurant
management software. Married a coastie now I''m a lubber again :)

Currently I''m operating a one-man consulting operation that does all
sorts
of digital design, web-site work, network troubleshooting and repair, and
quite a bit of contract sysadmin work at San Jacinto Community College
where I am studying. Every once in a blue moon I get a really cool gig
with a database back-end involved, and next time I''m going to be ready!

I''m using rails because it freakin rocks, and that says a lot for those
of
you out there that built this wonder (tip o the tam)

I''m about to deploy a ''get acquainted'' site with a
lot of Digital Art Lab
Procedure doc and a sort of bulletin board system for the instructors who
use the lab. Unfortunately I won''t be able to show it to you in action
as
it will be an intranet app.

For myself and potentially the community I''m working up a sort of
reference blogware piece based loosely on how hieraki is put together;
I''m
calling it ''cuneiform'', I hope it is worthy of your attention
some day
soon. I am really learning a lot from Hieraki; it''s a fine piece of
work.

I recently rebuilt my household server on Free-BSD (which I have never
used before; I''ve been a Linux guy for a long time) to accommodate
rails
development, and let me tell you it was a nightmare that includes a
domain name change (!) but I think it was worth every new grey hair on my
head :)

Sorry about the book I''ve written here! Great to meet you all and I
look
forward to many vigorous and insightful discussions with you on the
subject of rails in the future.

Cheers!

Kindest Regards,
James G. Stallings II
aka Twitch

My name is Stefan Kaes,

I live in Frankfurt, Germany. I have studied computer science at the TU
Darmstadt some decades ago ago, spent some time as a researcher there
(denotational semantics, language design, programming environments, type
inference), worked for one of the major German banks for about 8 years.
I am currently freelancing a bit and also prepare my PHD thesis defense,
which will take place on 3rd or 4th of March at the University of
Darmstadt (see
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=overloading+subtyping&btnG=Search

for some really old stuff ;-).

My programming/design experience includes: compilers (written 3, sold
1), interpreters, GUI development and OO framework design, 3 tier
application design and deployment (>20000 clients, >100 unix servers, 1
mainframe). I have written programs in many languages of all major
programming paradigms, including: C, C++, Perl, LISP, Java, ... and
lately Ruby.

I became interested in RoR after reading the /. article, decided that I
was going to give it a try and managed to developed a recipe database
application with RoR over the last 6 weeks in my spare time. It''s up
and running on my home network (knuzzlipuzzli.homeip.net), which is fine
for the currently rather small user base, but some day I might move it
to a real server ;-)

--stefan

Hello my name is Bruno Mattarollo, I live in sunny Sydney, Australia.

I am currently freelancing. Since 2000 and until July last year I
worked for Greenpeace International, in the IT and New Media
departments. Was doing development, sysadmin and later was Head of IT.
Before that I worked as a consultant in one of my countries of origin
(yeah, a bit complicated) Argentina. Did a lot of M$ stuff. I also
volunteer for a non-profit called Wamani (part of APC [
http://www.apc.org/ ]), and there I was exposed to Linux in 1993 and
since then, despite the interludes with M$ technologies, I have
continuously been a Linux user, sysadmin, dev, FAN! :)

I have been using Rails for a few months now and I am currently
working on a Community of Practice site here in Australia, in the
Health sector. Can''t say much more than that at the moment.

I am also quite involved in the OpenACS [ http://openacs.org/ ] framework.

/B


On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 19:52:26 -0600, Curt Hibbs
<curt-fk6st7iWb8MAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> On December 14th, 2004 David Heinemeier Hansson sent this to the mailing
> list:
[ ... ]


-- 
Bruno Mattarollo
<bruno.mattarollo-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Currently in: Sydney, Australia

Patrick Lenz
Wiesbaden, Germany
scoop on #rubyonrails
http://poocs.net/

My day job is the surveillance of half a dozen tech support guys at a 
storage systems integrator. Web-development occupies the second half of 
my brain (ha!). I founded and still maintain the freshmeat.net software 
archive and I''ve been a PHP follower for the past 8 years, looking for 
an alternative ever since (*cough*). After briefly checking into Python 
and its available frameworks, I stumbled across Rails and almost 
instantly elected it as the reason to learn Ruby and use it for future 
projects. There''s no public projects yet, with announcements for some 
surely popping up at my blog in the near future.

Cheers!

-- 
Patrick Lenz (scoop)
patrick-cOCOskwdPhI@public.gmane.org

Phone: +49-611-333-4722
Mobile: +49-179-202-6678

[ poocs.net - freshmeat.net - rsmodels.net - topmedia.de - 
wiesbadeneins.de ]

Representin Goa, India, this is Rakesh, independent consumer software 
developer ( windows/c++/ ). Learning me RoR in my spare time. Glad to be 
a late entrant to this web dev game. Its meant leapfrogging a decade of 
ass. I have an impossibly ambitious media-portal-for-India app/service 
that I am developing as a learning project. Since RoR is so easy, the 
portal will be done in no time; freeing me to work on the IPO.

Mad props to the inventors of Ruby and RoR - Matz and David, all 
authors, Curt for his tutorial and the RoR community. Brilliant stuff.

Cheers,
-Rakesh

>   I''m seeing a lot of new names on the list. Could
>   we perhaps do a round of introductions? 
Stoyan Zhekov,
bulgarian, living in Japan
working mostly like an sysadmin
zhware on #rubyonrails

Projects: 
http://iod.bgjap.net/idea/ - Ideas Online Database
and several intranet projects

My name is Brandon Philips, my project is Maintain a DHCP and DNS
management tool: 

http://osuosl.org/projects/maintain

The PHP has grown to be  unmaintainable, and a rewrite/refactoring is in
order, the problem is that the refactoring is taking far too long, so I
am exploring Rails as a replacement. 

I live in Corvallis OR, and on that note we really need to create an
Oregon RUG?  Rails user group?  Does someone want to setup a mailing
list?  

-Brandon

On 20:21 Tue 08 Feb     , Erik Howard wrote:
> > I moved to Portland last year and do Rails dev for a living.  Lucas
> > Carlson is also in town.  Time for pdx.rails.rb?
> > 
> > jeremy
> 
> Sounds like a good idea to me. I knew a few other rails lurkers in town.
> 
> -Erik
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Hi,

My name is Svet Ivantchev
Working in Bilbao, Spain
Co-founder of open source consulting company eFaber 
(http://www.efaber.net ) Our main toolkit is OpenACS 
(http://www.openacs.org) but considering Rais for some type of 
projects. The first Rails-based project is on the way now.

Greetings,

-- Svet

Matt Rohrer, a USAian living in Denmark
rohrer on irc.freenode.net
http://prognostikos.com/

I''ve been doing web development and unix system administration
for 5-6 years now, first as a regular employee and now on a
contract/consulting basis. Most of my development work to date has
been in PHP and Oracle PL/SQL, and I''ve also worked with
Python/Zope/Plone, Perl and Java. I''ve looked at many different
PHP, Python and Java frameworks over the years and Rails provides 
a nice balance of power, elegance and productivity.

In my not-so-copious spare time I''m porting two personal projects
to Rails; a budgeting/financial management app and a bookmark
manager.

I''ll soon be looking for work in Denmark or via telecommute -- a
mixture of Rails development and systems architecture/administration
would be ideal.

All you PDX folk are making me homesick!

Apart from what I posted back in the day 
(http://one.textdrive.com/pipermail/rails/2004-December/001177.html)
I''m
  now also beginning to work in a restaurant reservation management app.

Victor


Curt Hibbs wrote:
> On December 14th, 2004 David Heinemeier Hansson sent this to the mailing
> list:
> 
>   I''m seeing a lot of new names on the list. Could
>   we perhaps do a round of introductions? That would
>   also be a great first post, if you haven''t had a
>   chance to contribute yet. The basics should include
>   your name, your organization, your country and city,
>   and the project you''re currently working on.
> 
> Its been a couple months since then (ancient history in Rails-time),
I''m
> updating my Rails presentation, and I''d like to include some
information
> about what is being done with Rails.
> 
> Below I listed all of the responses from the first round. If your response
> is no longer current, please post a correction. If you missed the first
> round of introductions, please use this as an excuse to let everyone know
> what you are doing.
> 
> Thanks,
> Curt
> 
> PS
>   Note to Bob Sidebotham: Yes, I remember punched cards & paper tape! 
:-)

hi everyone,

I''ve posted this earlier but don''t seem to appear in the
previous list,
not a problem here is an update :

I''m Thomas "ange" Riboulet, I live in Paris, France.
I''m a student in
computer science and looking for a sysadmin/developer job atm. Ruby 
addict since last year, RoR addict since last month.
I''ve done some php webapps, and small ERuby ones in the past. After one
month using RoR I''ve been working on some little projects for me : a 
small publishing management app, ... and writing an howto (about has and 
belongs to many). And I don''t want to go back to php.

My current project : a trac (http://www.edgewall.com/trac) like project 
management app with a bug tracking system, documents creation and 
edition, versions management, todo list, deadlines and calendar ...
It''s
called Coterie (a coterie is an intimate and often exclusive group of 
persons with a unifying common interest or purpose).
- http://librium.org:2500 : a temporary wiki about it, to give info, and 
keep a track of how the development is going
- http://coterie.librium.org : a demo website (doesn''t reproduce latest
developments).
The big feature will be a scm browser (svn for sure, maybe more).


Thanks to all the Ruby and RoR people

hugs from France, Paris


ange

I suppose it''s time I weighed in on this thread.

I live in Adelaide, South Australia. I''m starting my second-last year
of
five on a combined Computer Systems Engineering / Mathematical and 
Computer Sciences degree at the University of Adelaide. I''m working at 
an electronics firm for the summer, and writing a Rails app in my spare 
time for a local sporting club to manage its accounting. Once I''ve got 
that to demo my skills I''ll be looking for contract/consulting work 
writing web applications and web-based accounting and business process 
management software for SMEs. I''ve made regular contributions of
patches
to RoR and can often be found answering questions about Rails on the 
mailing list and IRC ranging from the simple to the hypothetical.

Tim.

-- 
Tim Bates
tim-kZbwfhiKUx26c6uEtOJ/EA@public.gmane.org

Hi all,

I''m a lurker thinking about a trac-like app - much like Ange.


Currently at the stage of going through the tutorials and open source 
bugtracker to see  how people are putting it all together.

I work in a Java shop, but would like to try something a little different.

It looks great!

Cheers
James

Studying for an engineering PhD at Clare College, Cambridge University 
in the UK.

My PhD has nothing to do with software (trying to develop a machine to 
remove print from paper so the paper can be immediately re-used) but 
like to dabble as a hobby.

Only one rails app to date, an event booking system for my college.  If 
anyone wants the code just ask.

Next rails stop will be an electronic voting system.

Tom

Thomas Counsell wrote:
> 
> Only one rails app to date, an event booking system for my college.  If 
> anyone wants the code just ask.
> 
  Yes, please!

I currently work for a graphic design company called Bleed, I''ve been 
doing web development for about 7-8 years. I''ve been working mostly
with
PHP, Python, ASP and some Java. Most of my job involves Flash/HTML stuff 
but I''ve also been trying to build a supporting technical platform.

My first Ruby on Rails and Ruby project is a community site for LEGO. I 
really enjoy working with Rails and I was not intimidated by the size of 
my project having so much faith in Rails. Our CMS and other systems will 
be ported or rewritten in Rails as soon as time allows it!

I''m evl on #rubyonrails

--
SIMEN BREKKEN / this path leads to the gates of madness.

Name: Ross M Karchner
http://karchner.com/blog
Day Job:"Content Lab" at KnowldedgePlanet, an Learning Management
System vendor. Not doing much Ruby or Rails at work, yet.

Once upon a time I was running a geographic blog aggregator called
Localfeeds.com. After fighting some stability issues with my original
Python/cgi code, I took it offline (almost two years ago now...) and
partially ported it to mod_python, then partially ported to to
Webware, but kept getting stuck in a rut working on the details that
Rails does for free. Needless to say, I''m moving it to Rails and
it''s
nice to be able to dedicate brain-cycles to the actual application
again.

I''m really enjoying learning MVC, Rails and Ruby. 


On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 19:52:26 -0600, Curt Hibbs
<curt-fk6st7iWb8MAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> On December 14th, 2004 David Heinemeier Hansson sent this to the mailing
> list:
> 
>   I''m seeing a lot of new names on the list. Could
>   we perhaps do a round of introductions? That would
>   also be a great first post, if you haven''t had a
>   chance to contribute yet. The basics should include
>   your name, your organization, your country and city,
>   and the project you''re currently working on.

On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 20:10 -0800, Jeremy Kemper wrote:
> Robby Russell wrote:
> > Robby Russell of PLANET ARGON 
> > Live in Portland, Oregon USA
> > http://www.planetargon.com/
> > 
> > Currently working on:
> > Ruby Shipping API http://rubyforge.org/projects/shipping/
> > and pgCart (potentially porting to Rails)
> 
> Erik Howard wrote:
> > Erik Howard
> > Portland, Oregon
> >
> > Currently working on Ruby PayPal and LinkPoint gateway modules, and a
> > HelpDesk rails app. Also getting ready to launch a web hosting company
> > this month. In the mean time, I''m also a .Net and J2EE
consultant and
> > trying to get at least a few hours sleep a night.
> 
> 
> I moved to Portland last year and do Rails dev for a living.  Lucas
> Carlson is also in town.  Time for pdx.rails.rb?
> 
> jeremy
Glad to see other people from PDX here. :-)

-Robby

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According to Curt Hibbs:
> David Heinemeier Hansson,
> Working with 37signals
> Live in Copenhagen, Denmark, but are working with
> people in Chicago, US
Ollivier Robert
Working at EUROCONTROL as a web architect on 
web applications, everything LDAP/SSO/security related.
Live in Paris, France.
Committer for the FreeBSD project for almost 10 years now.

I plan to use RoR on anything web related and using Ruby for
the rest (sysadmin tasks, LDAP tasks and so on).  Ruby is already
a standard language for my organisation and I''ll push RoR here
as well.  On a personal note, I plan to use RoR for small apps
(like managing collections of books/CD/wine bottles) at home.
-- 
Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=-
roberto-0kjVc+YyuDZX+h8frlqCcVAUjnlXr6A1@public.gmane.org
Darwin snuadh.freenix.org Kernel Version 7.7.0: Sun Nov  7 16:06:51 PST 2004

Jonathan Conway
Senior software engineer for Netengines Worldwide in the UK as well as a 
consultant for other companies. I still use alot of Java in my day to 
day job, but gradually I''m introducing Ruby as well as Rails into more 
projects.

Just deployed an application last week for a company I consult for 
called http://www.everthingcute.com , not all the features have been 
turned on yet as I''m still guaging performance. I will probably start 
turning them on one by one next week as I''m pretty impressed with the 
performance of RoR with FCGI so far.
Its a full ecommerce system integrating both a CMS with CRM 
functionality added for good measure.

I can''t wait to see how RoR progresses in the future

Cheers

J


Bill Katz wrote:
> Bill Katz
> Neo-pro fiction writer, entrepreneur, programmer/scientist
> Arlington, Virginia
> 
> After prototyping a small PHP app with some writing classes, I''m
just
> starting to use RoR to build Writertopia, a system for creative writing
> workshops and resources.
> 
> Linux, web development, patterns, CSS, MySQL, just about the entire stack
> was new to me a couple of years ago. It''s been a fun ride,
especially RoR,
> and I look forward to learning from everyone and contributing what I can.
My
> background: no punch cards for me, but I did start with BASIC on a TRS-80
> and cassette tape storage unit; various languages and projects going
through
> Stanford; long time spent with C/C++ for 3D image processing, pattern
> recognition, volume visualization, optimization problems, etc over the last
> 15 years.

My name is Scott St. John and I am in Pennsylvania, US.  I host a daily 
morning radio show on commercial radio and then head to my real job 
which is running a small ISP.  I am the jack of all trades there doing 
everything from web development to system administration.

I have been using PHP since the late 90''s and even did ASP stuff for 
real companies.  I read the O''Reilly article and could not believe how 
fast you could prototype and make a real app with minimal code.  I 
*really* like the idea of rails and have been toying around with the 
idea of using it on a real project for a client.

Of course I have to get it working first :(  I just switched to a Mac 
in April and I am still trying to figure out the Mac and now how to get 
RoR to work......  once I get that I hope to get my BSD servers working 
and then I will be able to play :)







> Below I listed all of the responses from the first round. If your 
> response
> is no longer current, please post a correction. If you missed the first
> round of introductions, please use this as an excuse to let everyone 
> know
> what you are doing.

Jeff Hardy,
Owner of a 2-man web dev firm in St. Catharines, Ontario Canada

I''ve been using Rails since September of 2004 when after going to 
37Signals'' Building of Basecamp workshop in Chicago DHH made a believer
out of me.

Currently working on a light-weight cms/blog app called
''Tagteam''. It
will be available one day under the GPL.

/Jeff

On 9 Feb 2005, at 01:52, Curt Hibbs wrote:
>   I''m seeing a lot of new names on the list. Could
>   we perhaps do a round of introductions? That would
>   also be a great first post, if you haven''t had a
>   chance to contribute yet. The basics should include
>   your name, your organization, your country and city,
>   and the project you''re currently working on.
Paul Osman
Programmer - Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Department of 
Clinical Pharmacology.
Living in Dublin, Ireland.

I''m new to both Rails and Ruby. I''ve got a few personal
projects on the
go, just to help me get a hang of the language and framework. I was 
attracted to Ruby as a pure Object Oriented "scripting" language, 
lacking a lot of the things that tend to annoy me in Python. I doubt 
I''ll have a chance to deploy anything written in Ruby at my current 
workplace, since just before discovering the language I spent a lot of 
time and effort helping to convert my colleagues to Python (from 
Perl... ugh). I''m looking forward to doing more work in Rails however, 
as I''ve kind of fallen in love with the framework in the short time 
I''ve been working with it. I hang out very occasionally on #rubyonrails
and #ruby-lang as rootslash.

Cheers,
Paul

Kevin Williams
Bantam Technologies LLC
Frederick, CO, USA

Mostly lurking and learning slowly.


Currently redesigning my web site on Rails.

Considering writing a Rails web front-end to MPD 
(http://www.musicpd.org) similar to phpMp 1 & 2 - mostly as a learning 
experience.

Trying to help the Castle on Rails project (semi-port to .NET) in my 
spare time. (http://www.castleproject.org).


Curt Hibbs wrote:
> On December 14th, 2004 David Heinemeier Hansson sent this to the mailing
> list:
> 
>   I''m seeing a lot of new names on the list. Could
>   we perhaps do a round of introductions? That would
>   also be a great first post, if you haven''t had a
>   chance to contribute yet. The basics should include
>   your name, your organization, your country and city,
>   and the project you''re currently working on.
> 
> Its been a couple months since then (ancient history in Rails-time),
I''m
> updating my Rails presentation, and I''d like to include some
information
> about what is being done with Rails.
> 
> Below I listed all of the responses from the first round. If your response
> is no longer current, please post a correction. If you missed the first
> round of introductions, please use this as an excuse to let everyone know
> what you are doing.
> 
> Thanks,
> Curt
> 
> PS
>   Note to Bob Sidebotham: Yes, I remember punched cards & paper tape! 
:-)
> 
> 
> ======= First Round Posts ======> 
> David Heinemeier Hansson,
> Working with 37signals
> Live in Copenhagen, Denmark, but are working with
> people in Chicago, US
> Basecamp and the forthcoming Writeboard
> 
> ======> 
> Scott Barron
> Doing rails stuff for Ohio University
> Live in Athens, Ohio
> Public projects:
>   Elite Journal
>   Recipe Box
> 
> As far as work related projects at OU go, I''ve got applications
that
> handle things as simple as a student employee schedule, to an app that
> creates and maintains a schedule of movies for the university''s
movie
> channel, to an app that maintains and handles billing for the dining
> hall, and a few more along those lines.  All future projects here will
> be developed in rails and several of our PHP projects have been ported
> to rails.
> 
> ======> 
> Pelle Brændgaard
> Working independently on a range of crypto and financial applications.
> Live permanently in Panama City, Panama but am temporarily in
> Copenhagen, Denmark.
> 
> Working on a "topsecret" project using Rails and a range of
opensource
> java code.
> 
> ======> 
> Johan Sörensen
> Currently a freelancer/consultant
> Living in the south of sweden at the moment, currently looking for
> work that''d allow me to use Rails (of course ;)) in one way or
> another.
> 
> On the subject of public personal Rails projects I have Collaboa,
> which is a communitywikiforumthingie I''ve created for the swedish
mac
> dev site http://cocoa.se. There is a Trac install available at
> http://collaboa.cocoa.se/trac if anyone wants to have a peek...
> 
> ======> 
> Demetrius Arraes Nunes
> Working on my masters degree in PUC-RJ, Brazil
> I also work on my own e-learning start-up company: Interface Ltd
> (http://www.interface-ti.com.br) (we use .NET there, for now... ;-) )
> I live in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
> My masters degree is about a web modeling technique called OOHDM (Object
> Oriented Hypermedia Design Method) that was "invented" by my
professor,
> Daniel Schwabe (Phd-UCLA), some 10 years ago, that adds a distinct
> "navigational modeling" step in the development cycle. In this
step, you
> map conceptual objects to navigational objects, define navigational
> contexts, indexes, links, anchors and other navigational primitives. I
> am developing a application that is the same time the modeling
> environment (using OOHDM) and the resulting application itself in a kind
> o wiki-like mode where you can edit not only the data, but also the
> model (and metamodel).
> The last (and HUGE) step in my project is to port the MySql
> implementation to a RDF database called Sesame, and that means porting
> ActiveRecord from relational to semantic/rdf. God (and please, David!)
> help me... :-O My deadline is februrary 28th. I am already done with 80%
> of the relational version.
> 
> ======> 
> Chris McGrath
> Currently freelance contractor based in Dublin, Ireland working on VB
> and ASP Stuff (urgh)
> Looking to find work in Rails, or convice my current place to convert
> some of thier apps to Rails.
> Working on a personal finance style application as a means of learning
> Rails and getting rid of GnuCash.
> I''m hoping to contribute something to the project in the new year,
> even if it''s just a couple of minor bugfixes :)
> 
> ======> 
> Peter Johansson
> Working as consultant for a large Fortune 500 company
> Live and work in Stockholm, Sweden
> 
> Just beginning to learn Rails (and Ruby) on my spare time and have
> planned to convert a couple of PHP-based apps to Rails. Previously
> I''ve worked most with PHP, Perl and Java.
> 
> ======> 
> Dale Hawkins
> Denver (Littleton), Colorado, US
> 
> I have written a couple utilities (a worklog/billing application), and
> I am working on porting a large, ugly php application used by
> government agents (no kidding).  The backend DB is sybase (oh, joy!
> :-( ), so I''ve been working on a sybase adapter whenever I get
around
> to it.  (But I have another job and kids, so progress is very slow
> much of the time).
> 
> I''ve been meaning to start a software project management tool
using
> rails.  Along the lines of trac but with some scheduling, resource
> tracking, and support for story card/use case design.
> 
> ======> 
> Marcel Molina Jr.
> "Doing rails stuff for" Simon''s Rock College, a small
liberal arts college
> in
> the wilds of Massachusetts that accepts "gifted" students into
college two
> years earlier than usual
> I live in The Berkshires, South Western Massachusetts
> 
> Currently working on an online admissions application, errr, application
> so that prospective students can apply to the college online. Also writing
> an application to register student/faculty/staff machines on the network.
> Planning on porting all (or most) existing web applications to Rails.
> Moving toward doing pretty much *everything* here with Rails (if web
> related) or Ruby if not, when appropriate (which is most of the time).
> 
> noradio on the #rubyonrails channel, much to david''s distress.
> 
> ======> 
> Jarkko Laine
> Student, athlete and entrepreneur
> Graduating from Tampere University of Technology (hopefully) next year
> Running my own company, O''Design
> Live and prosper in Tampere, Finland (that''s next to Nokia,
people)
> Working on my first commercial Rails project at the moment (a simple
> CMS)
> As a personal project I''m developing a Basecamp for athlete groups
and
> trainers, including training diary etc...
> jarkko (surprise?) at #rubyonrails
> 
> ======> 
> Hello, my name is Steve Kellock and I''m a Rails junkie.
> what-a-day on IRC #rubyonrails
> Indy Developer
> Barrie (just north of Toronto), Canada
> 
> - Completed a sales application for a client.
> - Currently working on a
> sports-team-management-extranet-type-of-app-thingy (it''d be a lot
> clearer with screen shots).
> - Have a few projects lined up for 2005... guess what I''m going to
> write them with?  (hint: it''s not DOS batch files)
> 
> ======> 
> Kevin Evans, University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK
> 
> Currently working on a Rails based blogging application for the
> (http://www.glam.ac.uk) University. Very close to going live, just
> struggling with fcgi stability :-(
> 
> regards
> Kevin Evans
> IS Development Manager
> 
> ======> 
> Tanner Burson
> Live in the great state of Oklahoma in the US.
> 
> Learning rails in my spare time, for my own personal projects at the
> moment.  Currently writing a multi-user task list of sorts.  Hoping to
> eventually find a client willing to take the plunge as well
> 
> ======> 
> Austin Moody
> MedAlliance Management Group - a small physician consulting firm in
> Johnson City, Tennessee.
> Completely rewritten our old electronic health claims manager in
> Rails/Ruby from PHP/Python.  Also created a custom intranet portal
> manager and a few other small specialized apps.
> austinetsu on #rubyonrails
> 
> ======> 
> I''m Rick Bradley, working as 1 of 4 people (2 developers - the
other
> developer is also on this list) at Base Systems (www.basesys.com) here
> in Nashville, TN.  We''re deploying a few new products for the
medical
> industry (Asterisk-based voice recording systems, handheld applications,
> etc.) and will be converting our medical workflow system (currently
> serving transcription providers) from PHP to Ruby and Rails over the
> next few months.
> 
> Since our company is so small we''re heavy into magnifying our
> productivity.  We''ve looked at (best estimate) close to 100
different
> frameworks in multiple languages over the past year and only Rails
> appears to actually reduce the amount of work we have to do.
> 
> I''m also gradually converting my various personal toys over to
using
> Rails as well -- I started with the DemoApp accountomatic which is
> working very well for me since porting it over to Rails.  Next is
> probably my jukebox system (rdtj.sourceforge.net), which looks like it
> will end up being Ruby+Madeleine+RGL+FreeBASE+Rails.
> 
> ======> 
> - Sascha Ebach
> - Entrepeneur
> - Living in Troisdorf Germany, which is right in between of Cologne and
> Bonn.
> - MCMS which stands for Magical Content Management Solution
> MCMS will a try to make a cms that ppl want to actually use, but
> nevertheless will have a lot of functionality. It will be magical and it
> will be open source.
> 
> ROADMAP
> ======> * Unique concentration on usability, web standards and
accessibility
> * Contentrepository as a tree, so you will be able easily extend the
> functionality of a corporate website to a blog with comments, a forum, a
> shop, a whatever. Something along the lines of ezpublish and drupal.
> * Versioning
> * WYSIWYG editing (with FCKEditor, which I find amazing)
> * different views and the administration, so new users and powerusers
> can feel at home
> * Maybe even edit-in-place, like you can see in Bitflux CMS, or LIMB.
> But I am uncertain about that as I think edit in place is not always the
> most generally applicable solution, esp. if you wanna have a cms which
> handles
> * multiple diffrent websites under one adminstration
> * media repository
> * make it possible to turn it in a hostable solution (this one will
> probably by closed source)
> * lots of other things
> 
> Current progress is 10%. As I am working on this alone, have a business
> to run (where I can not always program in ruby) and my family to care
> about, progress is not going to be very fast. Hopefully it will be
> something usable within the next 6-12 months. If luck strikes me and if
> what they say about rails is true, than it might be earlier ;)
> 
> As soon as I have something usable I will create an enironment where
> collaboration is possible. If you wanna help, please wait a little while
> until I get my act together. Which (I feel sometimes) could never happen
> ;) I will announce it on this list.
> 
> ======> 
> Sean Leach
> Ventura, CA
> irc: kicker
> 
> Working on several personal projects with rails.  RSS feed aggregator,
> stat management application as well a small ecommerce app, probably
> won''t finish any of them :)
> 
> I do 99% of my work in Python when I can, and will continue to do so,
> but Rails is by far the best web framework I have used (and I guarantee
> I have used/built apps with pretty much all of them from the PHP ones to
> the Java ones etc.).  To be honest, I wish there was a Python on Rails
> like has been discussed.  Ruby is a fine language, but I know Python in
> and out and prefer it over Ruby (please do not begin a language war).
> 
> ======> 
> Jim Weirich
> Consultant for Compuware,
> Currently working on-site at a LARGE financial company
> Java programmer by day, Ruby programmer by night (and some day too!)
> Rails Projects:
> * Storycards -- XP like planning tool
> * Misc prototypes
> Non-Rails Ruby Projects
> * Rake -- Ruby''s version of Make
> * RubyGems -- Packaging software
> 
> ======> 
> Lee Marlow
> IRC: mecraw
> Denver (Highlands Ranch), CO, USA
> 
> So far I''m just a Ruby/Rails voyeur.  I became interested when
Dave Thomas
> mentioned Ruby at a Java conference.  I hope to do some personal projects
in
> Rails, maybe my wedding site.  Hopefully Rails makes web development easy
> enough for a backend Java developer.
> 
> ======> 
> 
> Jason Alexander Hoffman
> PhD scientist at the Novartis Institute for Functional Genomic
> Master configurer behind TextDrive
> Live in La Jolla California, and am lucky to work with people who are
> everywhere
> 
> NIFG is all perl, java, python (in that order) and some ruby (me) but
> no Rails (yet?)
> My personal pet project is a bioinformatics web app in Rails.
> And I dream at night of a end-user hosting "control panel" in
Rails.
> 
> ======> 
> Jason Alexander Hoffman
> PhD scientist at the Novartis Institute for Functional Genomic
> Master configurer behind TextDrive
> Live in La Jolla California, and am lucky to work with people who are
> everywhere
> 
> NIFG is all perl, java, python (in that order) and some ruby (me) but
> no Rails (yet?)
> My personal pet project is a bioinformatics web app in Rails.
> And I dream at night of a end-user hosting "control panel" in
Rails.
> 
> ======> 
> I''m Sam Stephenson; 20 years old, unemployed, on leave from
Virginia
> Polytechnic Institute, and currently living in Chicago, IL, US. A
> recent evaluation has demonstrated that I''m not really good at
> anything, but that doesn''t keep me from enjoying Rails.
> 
> I live for Ruby, I''m a huge fan of domain-specific languages, and
I
> get really excited by introspection and all the stuff that comes with
> it. I like to build small things out of even smaller things.
> 
> I have a tendency to create projects and leave them unmaintained. As a
> subscriber to the Rails list, ou may have encountered two of those:
> Prick[1], an IRC quote application written in Rails, and Paginator
> Helper[2]. If you use Gtk+, there''s also my Gtk::MDI[3] library,
which
> suffers the same fate.
> 
> I contribute trivial patches to Rails when I can.
> 
> My current project is Timber, a Rails application for Web magazines.
> It lets authors and editors collaborate on articles and makes it easy
> to lay out content. It''s similar to Textpattern[4] but
significantly
> simpler. I''m also playing around with an interactive Web-based
> debugger for Rails which adds a live irb console to your error pages
> with XMLHttpRequest.
> 
> You can almost always find me on #rubyonrails as sam-.
> 
> ======> 
> I''m Joe Van Dyk.  I''ve been playing around with Ruby for
about six
> months, and Rails about a month.  Neat stuff.
> 
> My "real job" is working for the Integrated Defense Systems
division
> of Boeing.  My recent project there has been using Ruby for a GUI to
> view and control simulations.  As far as I know, I''m the only
person
> at Boeing to use Ruby for anything, but hopefully that will change!
> 
> I''m also developing a real estate site using Rails. 
Can''t wait until
> 0.9 comes out.
> 
> ======> 
> I am: Bob Sidebotham
> Vancouver, Canada
> 
> After spending 30 years writing software in various guises (anyone
> remember punched cards and paper tape?), I had pretty much burned out.
> I spent the last several years looking for another vocation. I''ve
had
> some minor successes, such as an exhibit of hand-processed b&w
> photographs--which I''ve since webified at
> http://windsong.bc.ca/alonetogether). Recently, however, I discovered
> Ruby, and my interest in software was re-kindled.
> 
> Several years ago, I wrote the software for managing a small home
> delivery business that provides organic produce and groceries. I''m
> currently considering rewriting that now ancient system in Rails. It
> has to deal with the whole gamut of processes, including inventory
> management, supplier ordering, customer relations, customer ordering,
> warehouse operations, delivery routing, accounting, billing, and
> others.
> 
> Ruby and Rails look like they will provide a good foundation for
> creating a maintainable--maybe even elegant--system for this business.
> 
> ======> 
> Samuel Kvarnbrink
> Lives in Umeå, Sweden. Working part-time as a system administrator at
> the university of Umeå, otherwise a freelance developer.
> 
> Freelance: Working with the Umeå Krio Corpus, which is a Rails app
> that''s used for managing and analyzing texts written in the Krio
> language for a research project. Krio, which is an Anglo-African Creole
> language spoken in various parts of West Africa, uses some phonetic
> characters for extra vowels and therefore the entire collection (which
> is HUGE and growing!) is encoded using UTF-16. I''ve implemented a
very
> fast text scanner in C that interfaces with Oniguruma, and Rails is
> used to provide a good frontend for it and handle the DB part.
> 
> Day job: Working on a _huge_ administrative application for HUMlab, a
> computer lab for people from all disciplines (but with main focus on
> the humanities). The app will manage/create user accounts, handle all
> courses held in the lab (and follow-up surveys), handle reservations,
> provide an interface for an SNMP-based print quota system (which i
> wrote in Ruby, of course) and a lot of other stuff. The app basically
> contains of three components: a Rails frontend, an AR-powered utility
> that handles/creates accounts in OpenLDAP, and the print quota system
> (also AR-powered).
> 
> The app is currently in alpha/planning stage, but will replace a less
> maintainable CGI-based Ruby system I wrote a while ago. It''s going
to
> be a _lot_ of work, but due to the efficiency of Rails I''m
estimating
> it to be much less cumbersome than maintaining and developing the old
> app.
> 
> ======> 
> Michael Koziarski
> Live in Wellington New Zealand.
> Working for a Bank,  Java by day ruby by night.
> No public rails projects yet,  but something''s in the works.
> 
> ======> 
> Robert Bousquet
> Front-end developer at the University of Southern California
> Currently re-skinning the USC Scholar''s Portal front-end and
working on
> the USC Digital Archive
> Daydreaming about building Rails apps instead.
> Also running freelance gig, Debut Web Design.
> 
> ======> 
> I''m Jens-Christian Fischer working at my company InVisible GmbH in
Zurich,
> Switzerland.
> Our main line of business are intranet applications for large companies
> (in Lotus Notes mainly)
> 
> I have 13+ years of Lotus Notes experience and always dabbled in languages
> on the side (Pascal, Modula-2, Smalltalk, C (argh), C++ (AAARRRGGG), Java,
> awk, Perl, Python and now Ruby
> 
> I have several other companies/projects (neural-network stock trading [1],
> p2p email [2] and a semi-secret mud/mush inspired [3] rails project that I
> hope to have live in the next few weeks.
> 
> [1] http://www.ivorix.com
> [2] http://www.zappatanetworks.com
> [3] http://amuda.ch
> 
> ======> 
> Jeff Moss
> Sandy, Utah, USA (Salt Lake City suburbia)
> Currently attending University of Utah for a bachelors in business
> administration.
> Day Job: work for a long distance reseller, www.americom.com, where I am
> the only developer employed. Currently overhauling entire website to
> move it out of the early 90''s era, convinced boss to do it in
rails, the
> best framework that I''ve ever investigated, by a long shot. I
believe I
> have David to thank?
> Previous experience has been Perl and PHP, and before that I messed
> around in C/C++. In my free time I play with other languages and am one
> of you who starts many projects and finishes few to none due to other
> invasive interests, although my current project, an ebay tool that
> interfaces with their xml web services, has actually come quite far and
> appears to be finishable, assuming the demons don''t take me first.
> 
> ======> 
> Tobias Lütke
> Stranded German in Ottawa, Canada
> 
> Currently I''m doing contract and some consulting work as well as
> several own commercial and private projects.
> 100% Of my payed work is done in Rails at this point, i''m one of
the lucky
> few.
> My best known project is probably http://www.snowdevil.ca , a
> full-fledged e-commerce system
> build on rails which hopefully hits its next milestone soon by selling
> some bloody snowboards.
> 
> Apart from snowdevil i have been working on Hieraki a collaborative
> book writing tool reusing proven concepts from wikis and tools like
> them. Hieraki has been progressing well and will probably receive a
> real announcement soon as it will be released under the MIT license.
> 
> My background is mainly static languages like c and c++ and
> unfortunately some java as well.
> After about 10 years of those you have seen it all...
> 
> Ruby rocks !
> 
> ======> 
> Hi, I''m Dan Peterson (danp in #rubyonrails) from Yuma, AZ. I work
for
> the Yuma Educational Consortium which is comprised of the local high
> school district and one of the two elementary districts in the area as
> well as other various entities.
> 
> I''ve been using Ruby for mainly procedural text-processing for
about
> four years now and I still do a lot of text data conversion and
> manipulation with it every day. I''m blown away by Rails and how
well
> it all works together. I started out using it trying to write a new
> accounts system with linkage to our two payroll systems. That was a
> bit ambitious so I''ve put that on hold and am working on an app
for
> tracking patches to our Oracle-based student information system and am
> having a lot of fun tinkering with it and especially trying out the
> new features that will appear in 0.9.
> 
> I can''t wait to implement more things for my customers with Rails;
> both to help them and to let me have fun doing it! :)
> 
> ======> 
> Michel Rasschaert from Paris, France.
> 
> I learn the basics of a lot of programming languages as a hobby (too
> many to write here) and I was very soon interested in Ruby. But it
> really is rails that made me use it for real at last.
> 
> Professionally I work for a bank doing Delphi work and hopefully
> migrating to Java and introducing some XP concepts (testing,
> continuous integration, IoC, etc.) but it''s hard.
> 
> In my spare time (not a lot regretfully) I work on a personal finance
> application on rails :)
> 
> ======> 
> I''ve been doing PHP development for 8 years but have just falled
in
> love with Rails. I am currently a senior Physics major attending Reed
> College in Portland, Oregon.
> 
> Rails Projects:
> ----------------------
> The Conjuring Cabaret - http://magic.rufy.com/
> My first project was to port the first site I created (back in 1996) to
> Rails from an ugly PHP/MySQL setup. The new version has 752 LOC and is
> much more customizable.
> 
> Web Collaborator - http://webcollaborator.com/ (in progress)
> Again a port, but this time from a homebrewed MVC PHP backend to Rails.
> It has taken 8 hours to port 90% of the site to Rails compared to the
> two months of scattered development it took for the original site to be
> put together. Including libraries (like Smarty), the PHP version had 30
> KLOCs. Including Rails code, the Rails version has 3 KLOCs (~600 lines
> of non-Rails code). This has been a HUGE improvement and will vastly
> speed up development time for this project. The Rails version should be
> up before the new year.
> 
> PATA - http://pataweb.net/
> I am in charge of revamping this site and have decided to do it with
> Rails.
> 
> Reed College
> I am going to be building various internal utility pages for Reed
> College''s web presence with Rails.
> 
> ======> 
> My name is Sarah Wedde and I live in Petone, New Zealand.
> 
> I''m currently trying to decrapify my weblog thingamy
> (http://onebefore.org/), make myself an application that will totally
> organise my life and fold my laundry, and I''m having a bit of a
play around
> with something to make use of the OpenSource Shakespeare database I
> downloaded during a bout of procrastination.
> 
> ======> 
> My namie is Shyam Gopale and I live in Pune, India.
> 
> Currently using rails for developing a web based portal
> for a friend. New to both Ruby and Rails. In my day job
> I develop "Identity Management" products.
> 
> ======> 
> Curt Sampson
> CTO, tabemo.com
> Tokyo, Japan
> 
> I''m building a (mostly mobile) website for time-based restaurant
> discounts (e.g., better discounts when the restaurant is not busy).
> Currently I''m battling my way out of PHP and MySQL hell, legacy of
> a previous IT administration here.
> 
> Previously I was Chief Architect at vanten.com, where my main project
> was an enterprise management system for a national wireless ISP in
> Japan. That was Java on top of PostgreSQL, and while PostgreSQL can
> compete with the best of them, it increased my frustrations with Java
> to the point I started looking for a new language.
> 
> ======> 
> Name:  Jens Himmelreich
> What:  Working at hanke multimediahaus (www.hmmh.de),
>        Ruby/Rails voyeur
> Where: Living in Bremen, Germany
> Work:  ecommerce-Websites (e.g. www.bonprix.de)
> 
> ======> 
> Name: Magnus Bodin
> Employer: IBM
> Country, City: Sweden, Malmö
> 
> Current project: Private Web project, will be public 2005Q1
> 
> We are currently two rails-fans at the IBM-office in Malmö.
> I hope that this will lead to something in the future.
> 
> =======> 
> Who:   Stefano Cobianchi
> Where: Milan, Italy
> What:  Using Ruby everywhere I can (currently it powers the server-side
>        of our email-marketing application); trying to promote Rails
>        as a replacement for our ugly home-brewed PHP frameworks (urgh)
> Why:   Well, given the choice among PHP, Java and Ruby, what would a
>        sane person do? :-)
> 
> ======> 
> Erno Mononen
> Living in  Jyväskylä, Finland
> 
> Developing sustainability  management  software using Java,  new  both
> to Ruby and Rails.  I''ve been experimenting with Rails for couple
> weeks now and I have to say I''m really impressed by the
productivity
> boost that  it offers. Looking for opportunities to use it in my daily
> work.
> 
> ======= End ======> 
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>   I''m seeing a lot of new names on the list. Could
>   we perhaps do a round of introductions? That would
>   also be a great first post, if you haven''t had a
>   chance to contribute yet. The basics should include
>   your name, your organization, your country and city,
>   and the project you''re currently working on.

Mark Lussier
San Jose, CA

I am the Director of Advance Technology for a silicon valley company that
produces routers (ans isnt Cisco<g>). We are using Rails to replace a java
webapp that powers our router management appliance. I am also one of the two
authors of the popular java blog application blojsom (which apple is
shipping in tiger as their weblog server)

I also lurk on #rubyonrails as intabulas.

My name is Koen Van der Auwera and I''m a Java Developer.
Living and working in Edegem, Belgium.

I have been keeping a eye on rails for some time now, but only started 
to use/learn it in my spare time since the OnLamp article. So far it has 
been a fun ride along the rails of ruby! :)

Andrew Otwell in Austin, TX (anyone else here?)

I''m coming at Rails from a pretty different perspective than most of 
you. I''m a UI designer, so I''m partly interested in learning
Rails to
build rapid prototypes for my designs.

But I''m also interested in Rails as an example of a successful 
"user-centered design" project. Obviously, DHH and other contributors 
have managed to build and market something that addresses some needs and 
  unmet desires of a growing group of developers. Reactions to it are 
not unlike reactions to Basecamp, along the lines of "I didn''t
realize I
wanted something so simple."

It''s the kind of success that many products never experience.
I''m
interested in why did this happen with Rails, and not another framework? 
Why do ideas like "less software" resonate with people so strongly,
and
how does Rails and David''s marketing of it take advantage of that? I 
suppose another way to put it is: what can Rails success teach me about 
the *politics* of building and marketing software?

Mando Escamilla in Austin, TX

I''ve been programming (web and otherwise) coming up on 8 years now.  I
spend my days writing Perl at a healthcare software company and my
nights writing Ruby :).

I started with RoR as a way to keep my chops, but I quickly became
enamored with it and am now using for every side-project I can get my
hands on.  Last month I put out the first prototype of an
accounting/time-sheet application based completely on RoR.

I''m also actively looking for a new RoR project to work on, preferably
something Open Source.  My idea well is a bit dry at the moment, so if
anyone needs some help with a project I''d love to hear from you.

--
Mando

Ok, my rails event booking app can be downloaded from 
http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~tamc2/eventbooker-0.0.5.zip

It won''t run out of the box (it uses a Cambridge University specific 
authentication system) but if any of you want to poke around the code 
and hack it up then feel free.  Consider it to be under the most 
liberal licence you can imagine.

Tom

On 9 Feb 2005, at 10:41, James Knight wrote:
> Thomas Counsell wrote:
>> Only one rails app to date, an event booking system for my college.  
>> If anyone wants the code just ask.
>  Yes, please!

I''m Arthur Jennings in Vancouver, BC. I''m an HTML
whatchamacallit and
long-time programming dilettante.

My project list:

1. Learn Rails and Ruby.
2. ????
3. Profit!

-- 
Arthur Jennings
http://www.timeistight.com

Stuart Rackham, Auckland, New Zealand.
Lurker, learning Rails with an eye to writing a browser based version of 
an existing desktop database application.

Cheers, Stuart
-- 
http://www.methods.co.nz/prs/       -- Personnel Recruitment System
http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/  -- Text based document generation


Curt Hibbs wrote:
> On December 14th, 2004 David Heinemeier Hansson sent this to the mailing
> list:
> 
>   I''m seeing a lot of new names on the list. Could
>   we perhaps do a round of introductions? That would
>   also be a great first post, if you haven''t had a
>   chance to contribute yet. The basics should include
>   your name, your organization, your country and city,
>   and the project you''re currently working on.
> 
> Its been a couple months since then (ancient history in Rails-time),
I''m
> updating my Rails presentation, and I''d like to include some
information
> about what is being done with Rails.
> 
> Below I listed all of the responses from the first round. If your response
> is no longer current, please post a correction. If you missed the first
> round of introductions, please use this as an excuse to let everyone know
> what you are doing.
> 
> Thanks,
> Curt
> 
> PS
>   Note to Bob Sidebotham: Yes, I remember punched cards & paper tape! 
:-)
> 
> 
> ======= First Round Posts ======> 
> David Heinemeier Hansson,
> Working with 37signals
> Live in Copenhagen, Denmark, but are working with
> people in Chicago, US
> Basecamp and the forthcoming Writeboard
> 
> ======> 
> Scott Barron
> Doing rails stuff for Ohio University
> Live in Athens, Ohio
> Public projects:
>   Elite Journal
>   Recipe Box
> 
> As far as work related projects at OU go, I''ve got applications
that
> handle things as simple as a student employee schedule, to an app that
> creates and maintains a schedule of movies for the university''s
movie
> channel, to an app that maintains and handles billing for the dining
> hall, and a few more along those lines.  All future projects here will
> be developed in rails and several of our PHP projects have been ported
> to rails.
> 
> ======> 
> Pelle Brændgaard
> Working independently on a range of crypto and financial applications.
> Live permanently in Panama City, Panama but am temporarily in
> Copenhagen, Denmark.
> 
> Working on a "topsecret" project using Rails and a range of
opensource
> java code.
> 
> ======> 
> Johan Sörensen
> Currently a freelancer/consultant
> Living in the south of sweden at the moment, currently looking for
> work that''d allow me to use Rails (of course ;)) in one way or
> another.
> 
> On the subject of public personal Rails projects I have Collaboa,
> which is a communitywikiforumthingie I''ve created for the swedish
mac
> dev site http://cocoa.se. There is a Trac install available at
> http://collaboa.cocoa.se/trac if anyone wants to have a peek...
> 
> ======> 
> Demetrius Arraes Nunes
> Working on my masters degree in PUC-RJ, Brazil
> I also work on my own e-learning start-up company: Interface Ltd
> (http://www.interface-ti.com.br) (we use .NET there, for now... ;-) )
> I live in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
> My masters degree is about a web modeling technique called OOHDM (Object
> Oriented Hypermedia Design Method) that was "invented" by my
professor,
> Daniel Schwabe (Phd-UCLA), some 10 years ago, that adds a distinct
> "navigational modeling" step in the development cycle. In this
step, you
> map conceptual objects to navigational objects, define navigational
> contexts, indexes, links, anchors and other navigational primitives. I
> am developing a application that is the same time the modeling
> environment (using OOHDM) and the resulting application itself in a kind
> o wiki-like mode where you can edit not only the data, but also the
> model (and metamodel).
> The last (and HUGE) step in my project is to port the MySql
> implementation to a RDF database called Sesame, and that means porting
> ActiveRecord from relational to semantic/rdf. God (and please, David!)
> help me... :-O My deadline is februrary 28th. I am already done with 80%
> of the relational version.
> 
> ======> 
> Chris McGrath
> Currently freelance contractor based in Dublin, Ireland working on VB
> and ASP Stuff (urgh)
> Looking to find work in Rails, or convice my current place to convert
> some of thier apps to Rails.
> Working on a personal finance style application as a means of learning
> Rails and getting rid of GnuCash.
> I''m hoping to contribute something to the project in the new year,
> even if it''s just a couple of minor bugfixes :)
> 
> ======> 
> Peter Johansson
> Working as consultant for a large Fortune 500 company
> Live and work in Stockholm, Sweden
> 
> Just beginning to learn Rails (and Ruby) on my spare time and have
> planned to convert a couple of PHP-based apps to Rails. Previously
> I''ve worked most with PHP, Perl and Java.
> 
> ======> 
> Dale Hawkins
> Denver (Littleton), Colorado, US
> 
> I have written a couple utilities (a worklog/billing application), and
> I am working on porting a large, ugly php application used by
> government agents (no kidding).  The backend DB is sybase (oh, joy!
> :-( ), so I''ve been working on a sybase adapter whenever I get
around
> to it.  (But I have another job and kids, so progress is very slow
> much of the time).
> 
> I''ve been meaning to start a software project management tool
using
> rails.  Along the lines of trac but with some scheduling, resource
> tracking, and support for story card/use case design.
> 
> ======> 
> Marcel Molina Jr.
> "Doing rails stuff for" Simon''s Rock College, a small
liberal arts college
> in
> the wilds of Massachusetts that accepts "gifted" students into
college two
> years earlier than usual
> I live in The Berkshires, South Western Massachusetts
> 
> Currently working on an online admissions application, errr, application
> so that prospective students can apply to the college online. Also writing
> an application to register student/faculty/staff machines on the network.
> Planning on porting all (or most) existing web applications to Rails.
> Moving toward doing pretty much *everything* here with Rails (if web
> related) or Ruby if not, when appropriate (which is most of the time).
> 
> noradio on the #rubyonrails channel, much to david''s distress.
> 
> ======> 
> Jarkko Laine
> Student, athlete and entrepreneur
> Graduating from Tampere University of Technology (hopefully) next year
> Running my own company, O''Design
> Live and prosper in Tampere, Finland (that''s next to Nokia,
people)
> Working on my first commercial Rails project at the moment (a simple
> CMS)
> As a personal project I''m developing a Basecamp for athlete groups
and
> trainers, including training diary etc...
> jarkko (surprise?) at #rubyonrails
> 
> ======> 
> Hello, my name is Steve Kellock and I''m a Rails junkie.
> what-a-day on IRC #rubyonrails
> Indy Developer
> Barrie (just north of Toronto), Canada
> 
> - Completed a sales application for a client.
> - Currently working on a
> sports-team-management-extranet-type-of-app-thingy (it''d be a lot
> clearer with screen shots).
> - Have a few projects lined up for 2005... guess what I''m going to
> write them with?  (hint: it''s not DOS batch files)
> 
> ======> 
> Kevin Evans, University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK
> 
> Currently working on a Rails based blogging application for the
> (http://www.glam.ac.uk) University. Very close to going live, just
> struggling with fcgi stability :-(
> 
> regards
> Kevin Evans
> IS Development Manager
> 
> ======> 
> Tanner Burson
> Live in the great state of Oklahoma in the US.
> 
> Learning rails in my spare time, for my own personal projects at the
> moment.  Currently writing a multi-user task list of sorts.  Hoping to
> eventually find a client willing to take the plunge as well
> 
> ======> 
> Austin Moody
> MedAlliance Management Group - a small physician consulting firm in
> Johnson City, Tennessee.
> Completely rewritten our old electronic health claims manager in
> Rails/Ruby from PHP/Python.  Also created a custom intranet portal
> manager and a few other small specialized apps.
> austinetsu on #rubyonrails
> 
> ======> 
> I''m Rick Bradley, working as 1 of 4 people (2 developers - the
other
> developer is also on this list) at Base Systems (www.basesys.com) here
> in Nashville, TN.  We''re deploying a few new products for the
medical
> industry (Asterisk-based voice recording systems, handheld applications,
> etc.) and will be converting our medical workflow system (currently
> serving transcription providers) from PHP to Ruby and Rails over the
> next few months.
> 
> Since our company is so small we''re heavy into magnifying our
> productivity.  We''ve looked at (best estimate) close to 100
different
> frameworks in multiple languages over the past year and only Rails
> appears to actually reduce the amount of work we have to do.
> 
> I''m also gradually converting my various personal toys over to
using
> Rails as well -- I started with the DemoApp accountomatic which is
> working very well for me since porting it over to Rails.  Next is
> probably my jukebox system (rdtj.sourceforge.net), which looks like it
> will end up being Ruby+Madeleine+RGL+FreeBASE+Rails.
> 
> ======> 
> - Sascha Ebach
> - Entrepeneur
> - Living in Troisdorf Germany, which is right in between of Cologne and
> Bonn.
> - MCMS which stands for Magical Content Management Solution
> MCMS will a try to make a cms that ppl want to actually use, but
> nevertheless will have a lot of functionality. It will be magical and it
> will be open source.
> 
> ROADMAP
> ======> * Unique concentration on usability, web standards and
accessibility
> * Contentrepository as a tree, so you will be able easily extend the
> functionality of a corporate website to a blog with comments, a forum, a
> shop, a whatever. Something along the lines of ezpublish and drupal.
> * Versioning
> * WYSIWYG editing (with FCKEditor, which I find amazing)
> * different views and the administration, so new users and powerusers
> can feel at home
> * Maybe even edit-in-place, like you can see in Bitflux CMS, or LIMB.
> But I am uncertain about that as I think edit in place is not always the
> most generally applicable solution, esp. if you wanna have a cms which
> handles
> * multiple diffrent websites under one adminstration
> * media repository
> * make it possible to turn it in a hostable solution (this one will
> probably by closed source)
> * lots of other things
> 
> Current progress is 10%. As I am working on this alone, have a business
> to run (where I can not always program in ruby) and my family to care
> about, progress is not going to be very fast. Hopefully it will be
> something usable within the next 6-12 months. If luck strikes me and if
> what they say about rails is true, than it might be earlier ;)
> 
> As soon as I have something usable I will create an enironment where
> collaboration is possible. If you wanna help, please wait a little while
> until I get my act together. Which (I feel sometimes) could never happen
> ;) I will announce it on this list.
> 
> ======> 
> Sean Leach
> Ventura, CA
> irc: kicker
> 
> Working on several personal projects with rails.  RSS feed aggregator,
> stat management application as well a small ecommerce app, probably
> won''t finish any of them :)
> 
> I do 99% of my work in Python when I can, and will continue to do so,
> but Rails is by far the best web framework I have used (and I guarantee
> I have used/built apps with pretty much all of them from the PHP ones to
> the Java ones etc.).  To be honest, I wish there was a Python on Rails
> like has been discussed.  Ruby is a fine language, but I know Python in
> and out and prefer it over Ruby (please do not begin a language war).
> 
> ======> 
> Jim Weirich
> Consultant for Compuware,
> Currently working on-site at a LARGE financial company
> Java programmer by day, Ruby programmer by night (and some day too!)
> Rails Projects:
> * Storycards -- XP like planning tool
> * Misc prototypes
> Non-Rails Ruby Projects
> * Rake -- Ruby''s version of Make
> * RubyGems -- Packaging software
> 
> ======> 
> Lee Marlow
> IRC: mecraw
> Denver (Highlands Ranch), CO, USA
> 
> So far I''m just a Ruby/Rails voyeur.  I became interested when
Dave Thomas
> mentioned Ruby at a Java conference.  I hope to do some personal projects
in
> Rails, maybe my wedding site.  Hopefully Rails makes web development easy
> enough for a backend Java developer.
> 
> ======> 
> 
> Jason Alexander Hoffman
> PhD scientist at the Novartis Institute for Functional Genomic
> Master configurer behind TextDrive
> Live in La Jolla California, and am lucky to work with people who are
> everywhere
> 
> NIFG is all perl, java, python (in that order) and some ruby (me) but
> no Rails (yet?)
> My personal pet project is a bioinformatics web app in Rails.
> And I dream at night of a end-user hosting "control panel" in
Rails.
> 
> ======> 
> Jason Alexander Hoffman
> PhD scientist at the Novartis Institute for Functional Genomic
> Master configurer behind TextDrive
> Live in La Jolla California, and am lucky to work with people who are
> everywhere
> 
> NIFG is all perl, java, python (in that order) and some ruby (me) but
> no Rails (yet?)
> My personal pet project is a bioinformatics web app in Rails.
> And I dream at night of a end-user hosting "control panel" in
Rails.
> 
> ======> 
> I''m Sam Stephenson; 20 years old, unemployed, on leave from
Virginia
> Polytechnic Institute, and currently living in Chicago, IL, US. A
> recent evaluation has demonstrated that I''m not really good at
> anything, but that doesn''t keep me from enjoying Rails.
> 
> I live for Ruby, I''m a huge fan of domain-specific languages, and
I
> get really excited by introspection and all the stuff that comes with
> it. I like to build small things out of even smaller things.
> 
> I have a tendency to create projects and leave them unmaintained. As a
> subscriber to the Rails list, ou may have encountered two of those:
> Prick[1], an IRC quote application written in Rails, and Paginator
> Helper[2]. If you use Gtk+, there''s also my Gtk::MDI[3] library,
which
> suffers the same fate.
> 
> I contribute trivial patches to Rails when I can.
> 
> My current project is Timber, a Rails application for Web magazines.
> It lets authors and editors collaborate on articles and makes it easy
> to lay out content. It''s similar to Textpattern[4] but
significantly
> simpler. I''m also playing around with an interactive Web-based
> debugger for Rails which adds a live irb console to your error pages
> with XMLHttpRequest.
> 
> You can almost always find me on #rubyonrails as sam-.
> 
> ======> 
> I''m Joe Van Dyk.  I''ve been playing around with Ruby for
about six
> months, and Rails about a month.  Neat stuff.
> 
> My "real job" is working for the Integrated Defense Systems
division
> of Boeing.  My recent project there has been using Ruby for a GUI to
> view and control simulations.  As far as I know, I''m the only
person
> at Boeing to use Ruby for anything, but hopefully that will change!
> 
> I''m also developing a real estate site using Rails. 
Can''t wait until
> 0.9 comes out.
> 
> ======> 
> I am: Bob Sidebotham
> Vancouver, Canada
> 
> After spending 30 years writing software in various guises (anyone
> remember punched cards and paper tape?), I had pretty much burned out.
> I spent the last several years looking for another vocation. I''ve
had
> some minor successes, such as an exhibit of hand-processed b&w
> photographs--which I''ve since webified at
> http://windsong.bc.ca/alonetogether). Recently, however, I discovered
> Ruby, and my interest in software was re-kindled.
> 
> Several years ago, I wrote the software for managing a small home
> delivery business that provides organic produce and groceries. I''m
> currently considering rewriting that now ancient system in Rails. It
> has to deal with the whole gamut of processes, including inventory
> management, supplier ordering, customer relations, customer ordering,
> warehouse operations, delivery routing, accounting, billing, and
> others.
> 
> Ruby and Rails look like they will provide a good foundation for
> creating a maintainable--maybe even elegant--system for this business.
> 
> ======> 
> Samuel Kvarnbrink
> Lives in Umeå, Sweden. Working part-time as a system administrator at
> the university of Umeå, otherwise a freelance developer.
> 
> Freelance: Working with the Umeå Krio Corpus, which is a Rails app
> that''s used for managing and analyzing texts written in the Krio
> language for a research project. Krio, which is an Anglo-African Creole
> language spoken in various parts of West Africa, uses some phonetic
> characters for extra vowels and therefore the entire collection (which
> is HUGE and growing!) is encoded using UTF-16. I''ve implemented a
very
> fast text scanner in C that interfaces with Oniguruma, and Rails is
> used to provide a good frontend for it and handle the DB part.
> 
> Day job: Working on a _huge_ administrative application for HUMlab, a
> computer lab for people from all disciplines (but with main focus on
> the humanities). The app will manage/create user accounts, handle all
> courses held in the lab (and follow-up surveys), handle reservations,
> provide an interface for an SNMP-based print quota system (which i
> wrote in Ruby, of course) and a lot of other stuff. The app basically
> contains of three components: a Rails frontend, an AR-powered utility
> that handles/creates accounts in OpenLDAP, and the print quota system
> (also AR-powered).
> 
> The app is currently in alpha/planning stage, but will replace a less
> maintainable CGI-based Ruby system I wrote a while ago. It''s going
to
> be a _lot_ of work, but due to the efficiency of Rails I''m
estimating
> it to be much less cumbersome than maintaining and developing the old
> app.
> 
> ======> 
> Michael Koziarski
> Live in Wellington New Zealand.
> Working for a Bank,  Java by day ruby by night.
> No public rails projects yet,  but something''s in the works.
> 
> ======> 
> Robert Bousquet
> Front-end developer at the University of Southern California
> Currently re-skinning the USC Scholar''s Portal front-end and
working on
> the USC Digital Archive
> Daydreaming about building Rails apps instead.
> Also running freelance gig, Debut Web Design.
> 
> ======> 
> I''m Jens-Christian Fischer working at my company InVisible GmbH in
Zurich,
> Switzerland.
> Our main line of business are intranet applications for large companies
> (in Lotus Notes mainly)
> 
> I have 13+ years of Lotus Notes experience and always dabbled in languages
> on the side (Pascal, Modula-2, Smalltalk, C (argh), C++ (AAARRRGGG), Java,
> awk, Perl, Python and now Ruby
> 
> I have several other companies/projects (neural-network stock trading [1],
> p2p email [2] and a semi-secret mud/mush inspired [3] rails project that I
> hope to have live in the next few weeks.
> 
> [1] http://www.ivorix.com
> [2] http://www.zappatanetworks.com
> [3] http://amuda.ch
> 
> ======> 
> Jeff Moss
> Sandy, Utah, USA (Salt Lake City suburbia)
> Currently attending University of Utah for a bachelors in business
> administration.
> Day Job: work for a long distance reseller, www.americom.com, where I am
> the only developer employed. Currently overhauling entire website to
> move it out of the early 90''s era, convinced boss to do it in
rails, the
> best framework that I''ve ever investigated, by a long shot. I
believe I
> have David to thank?
> Previous experience has been Perl and PHP, and before that I messed
> around in C/C++. In my free time I play with other languages and am one
> of you who starts many projects and finishes few to none due to other
> invasive interests, although my current project, an ebay tool that
> interfaces with their xml web services, has actually come quite far and
> appears to be finishable, assuming the demons don''t take me first.
> 
> ======> 
> Tobias Lütke
> Stranded German in Ottawa, Canada
> 
> Currently I''m doing contract and some consulting work as well as
> several own commercial and private projects.
> 100% Of my payed work is done in Rails at this point, i''m one of
the lucky
> few.
> My best known project is probably http://www.snowdevil.ca , a
> full-fledged e-commerce system
> build on rails which hopefully hits its next milestone soon by selling
> some bloody snowboards.
> 
> Apart from snowdevil i have been working on Hieraki a collaborative
> book writing tool reusing proven concepts from wikis and tools like
> them. Hieraki has been progressing well and will probably receive a
> real announcement soon as it will be released under the MIT license.
> 
> My background is mainly static languages like c and c++ and
> unfortunately some java as well.
> After about 10 years of those you have seen it all...
> 
> Ruby rocks !
> 
> ======> 
> Hi, I''m Dan Peterson (danp in #rubyonrails) from Yuma, AZ. I work
for
> the Yuma Educational Consortium which is comprised of the local high
> school district and one of the two elementary districts in the area as
> well as other various entities.
> 
> I''ve been using Ruby for mainly procedural text-processing for
about
> four years now and I still do a lot of text data conversion and
> manipulation with it every day. I''m blown away by Rails and how
well
> it all works together. I started out using it trying to write a new
> accounts system with linkage to our two payroll systems. That was a
> bit ambitious so I''ve put that on hold and am working on an app
for
> tracking patches to our Oracle-based student information system and am
> having a lot of fun tinkering with it and especially trying out the
> new features that will appear in 0.9.
> 
> I can''t wait to implement more things for my customers with Rails;
> both to help them and to let me have fun doing it! :)
> 
> ======> 
> Michel Rasschaert from Paris, France.
> 
> I learn the basics of a lot of programming languages as a hobby (too
> many to write here) and I was very soon interested in Ruby. But it
> really is rails that made me use it for real at last.
> 
> Professionally I work for a bank doing Delphi work and hopefully
> migrating to Java and introducing some XP concepts (testing,
> continuous integration, IoC, etc.) but it''s hard.
> 
> In my spare time (not a lot regretfully) I work on a personal finance
> application on rails :)
> 
> ======> 
> I''ve been doing PHP development for 8 years but have just falled
in
> love with Rails. I am currently a senior Physics major attending Reed
> College in Portland, Oregon.
> 
> Rails Projects:
> ----------------------
> The Conjuring Cabaret - http://magic.rufy.com/
> My first project was to port the first site I created (back in 1996) to
> Rails from an ugly PHP/MySQL setup. The new version has 752 LOC and is
> much more customizable.
> 
> Web Collaborator - http://webcollaborator.com/ (in progress)
> Again a port, but this time from a homebrewed MVC PHP backend to Rails.
> It has taken 8 hours to port 90% of the site to Rails compared to the
> two months of scattered development it took for the original site to be
> put together. Including libraries (like Smarty), the PHP version had 30
> KLOCs. Including Rails code, the Rails version has 3 KLOCs (~600 lines
> of non-Rails code). This has been a HUGE improvement and will vastly
> speed up development time for this project. The Rails version should be
> up before the new year.
> 
> PATA - http://pataweb.net/
> I am in charge of revamping this site and have decided to do it with
> Rails.
> 
> Reed College
> I am going to be building various internal utility pages for Reed
> College''s web presence with Rails.
> 
> ======> 
> My name is Sarah Wedde and I live in Petone, New Zealand.
> 
> I''m currently trying to decrapify my weblog thingamy
> (http://onebefore.org/), make myself an application that will totally
> organise my life and fold my laundry, and I''m having a bit of a
play around
> with something to make use of the OpenSource Shakespeare database I
> downloaded during a bout of procrastination.
> 
> ======> 
> My namie is Shyam Gopale and I live in Pune, India.
> 
> Currently using rails for developing a web based portal
> for a friend. New to both Ruby and Rails. In my day job
> I develop "Identity Management" products.
> 
> ======> 
> Curt Sampson
> CTO, tabemo.com
> Tokyo, Japan
> 
> I''m building a (mostly mobile) website for time-based restaurant
> discounts (e.g., better discounts when the restaurant is not busy).
> Currently I''m battling my way out of PHP and MySQL hell, legacy of
> a previous IT administration here.
> 
> Previously I was Chief Architect at vanten.com, where my main project
> was an enterprise management system for a national wireless ISP in
> Japan. That was Java on top of PostgreSQL, and while PostgreSQL can
> compete with the best of them, it increased my frustrations with Java
> to the point I started looking for a new language.
> 
> ======> 
> Name:  Jens Himmelreich
> What:  Working at hanke multimediahaus (www.hmmh.de),
>        Ruby/Rails voyeur
> Where: Living in Bremen, Germany
> Work:  ecommerce-Websites (e.g. www.bonprix.de)
> 
> ======> 
> Name: Magnus Bodin
> Employer: IBM
> Country, City: Sweden, Malmö
> 
> Current project: Private Web project, will be public 2005Q1
> 
> We are currently two rails-fans at the IBM-office in Malmö.
> I hope that this will lead to something in the future.
> 
> =======> 
> Who:   Stefano Cobianchi
> Where: Milan, Italy
> What:  Using Ruby everywhere I can (currently it powers the server-side
>        of our email-marketing application); trying to promote Rails
>        as a replacement for our ugly home-brewed PHP frameworks (urgh)
> Why:   Well, given the choice among PHP, Java and Ruby, what would a
>        sane person do? :-)
> 
> ======> 
> Erno Mononen
> Living in  Jyväskylä, Finland
> 
> Developing sustainability  management  software using Java,  new  both
> to Ruby and Rails.  I''ve been experimenting with Rails for couple
> weeks now and I have to say I''m really impressed by the
productivity
> boost that  it offers. Looking for opportunities to use it in my daily
> work.
> 
> ======= End ======> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
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>

> On December 14th, 2004 David Heinemeier Hansson sent this to the 
> mailing
> list:
>
>   I''m seeing a lot of new names on the list. Could
>   we perhaps do a round of introductions? That would
>   also be a great first post, if you haven''t had a
>   chance to contribute yet. The basics should include
>   your name, your organization, your country and city,
>   and the project you''re currently working on.
>
Hey all, I''m Bodhi, an Australian living and working in Japan at 
http://www.gplusmedia.com (sorry for the plug :) )... just discovered 
rails last week, getting into it and evaluating if we should move over 
from a PHP based platform.  so far everything looks good!  I''m 
impressed with the way rails ''does it for you'' or lets you
DIY! I want
to try to contribute back to the rails community so I don''t feel so 
guilty when i come begging for help :)

I mostly work in Java at my current job (employer not given).  I''ve
been
toying with Ruby for a while now, but mostly used Python and Java in my
professional work.  Ruby on Rails got me more interested in Ruby
recently and I started using it at work in little "cubbyhole"
projects.
Mostly smaller stuff like system admin tools for clusters.  The most
recent RoR usage was a simple web interface to control a clustered
application.  It''s probably going to get rewritten in Java, but the
prototype was solid and gave us what we needed for the immediate use.

My current personal project is called FastCST and is the result of an
experiment converting a C project to Ruby.  FastCST is en experimental
encrypted version control system for strict control of configurations.
The target audience is configuration managers not necessarily
developers, with a side target of system administrators needing to
manage large groups of systems.  The original software is written in C:

http://www.zedshaw.com/projects/fastcst/index.html

But I have a working prototype of a Ruby version that is nearly as fast
if not faster and much easier to understand.  I should be releasing a
first cut of it in about a week.  Anyone interested in playing with
early version can bug me on IRC (I''m zedas).

Other than that I''ve got lots of needs for RoR but haven''t
gotten around
to doing them yet.

-- 
Zed A. Shaw
http://www.zedshaw.com/

My name is Paulo Pinto and just moved into Düsseldorf/Germany   to
work as Software Developer in one of the Nokia''s R&D units.

However I''m not doing anything related to Ruby in my daily work.

I''m already proficient in several scripiting languages. And after
seeing the rails article in OnLamp that gave me the perfect excuse to
learn Ruby. :D

I was even considering using it for the new version of my web site,
but since I don''t have ISP support for it, I guess that I''ll
just to use the usual suspects(PHP or Perl). :(

But if no one made a ActiveRecord adapter for MSDE/SQL Server, I might
just volunter to do one!

Cheers,
Paulo

Josef Pospisil
Prague, Czech republic
PhD. student, web company founder (this or next week:-)

Currently working on program for testing students for my University. 
Trying to start local Ruby/Rails community.

Thanks a lot for Rails, everybody. pepe

On 9.2.2005, at 2:52, Curt Hibbs wrote:
> On December 14th, 2004 David Heinemeier Hansson sent this to the 
> mailing
> list:
>
>   I''m seeing a lot of new names on the list. Could
>   we perhaps do a round of introductions? That would
>   also be a great first post, if you haven''t had a
>   chance to contribute yet. The basics should include
>   your name, your organization, your country and city,
>   and the project you''re currently working on.

On Feb 9, 2005, at 5:19 PM, Andrew Otwell wrote:
> It''s the kind of success that many products never experience.
I''m
> interested in why did this happen with Rails, and not another 
> framework?
In the Ruby world: good hyping/marketing/positioning from David and 
basically no competitors.

  S.

Hi there,

I''m Reid Ellis, and I live in Toronto. I''m a long-time Mac
developer
(since 1985) and skunkworks web guy (since 1992), and have worked at 
Alias Systems and MGI-which-got-bought-by-Roxio. Worked on Alias 
Sketch, Maya and Alias SketchBook Pro, both of which I doubt will ever 
be converted to Rails. :-)  I''m one of the few who can claim to have 
been a *professional* BeOS developer (MGI VideoWave for BeOS).

Been doing contract Mac Cocoa work since I left Roxio in mid-2002, ran 
across Rails in November of last year when a potential contract came up 
for doing an HR app. Contract fell through, but my interest in Rails 
did not.

Two potential Rails apps I have "worked" on (does drawing database 
schema count as work?) for myself are:

	comic book database
	weblog (ya, it''s like the 423rd Rails-based weblog)

The marketing hook for my weblog thing is that I want to use Rails, but 
I want to adapt to an already-existing database being used by WordPress 
1.5alpha/beta/gamma/delta. Same database, different software. I really, 
really like WordPress, but I really don''t like PHP all that much, 
y''see.

If I ever get onto IRC I would be "clith". I have a couple of blogs: 
http://rae.tnir.org (WordPress 1.3) and http://tech.tnir.org (WordPress 
1.5beta).

Reid

> Committer for the FreeBSD project for almost 10 years now.
Keep it up :). The entire 37signals suite of machines is running 
FreeBSD for Basecamp, Ta-da, etc. TextDrive is all FreeBSD. And my 
personal server too. Yay for FreeBSD.
--
David Heinemeier Hansson,
http://www.basecamphq.com/   -- Web-based Project Management
http://www.rubyonrails.org/  -- Web-application framework for Ruby
http://macromates.com/       -- TextMate: Code and markup editor (OS X)
http://www.loudthinking.com/ -- Broadcasting Brain

hello!

my name is florian weber and i''m a freelance software developer and 
designer
from hamburg, germany. i''ve worked for clients and brands like 
universal music,
nivea, greenpeace, sony, etc.

latest rails project: http://www.bellybutton.de (cms and shop)

ciao!
florian

On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Curt Hibbs wrote:
> On December 14th, 2004 David Heinemeier Hansson sent this to the mailing
> list:
>
>  I''m seeing a lot of new names on the list. Could
>  we perhaps do a round of introductions? That would
>  also be a great first post, if you haven''t had a
>  chance to contribute yet. The basics should include
>  your name, your organization, your country and city,
>  and the project you''re currently working on.
Justin Dossey, sysadmin at CollabNet, San Francisco, USA.

Currently putting together a podcasting site (not affiliated with
CollabNet).

I''ve been using Rails since mid-December.

--
Justin Dossey

Hi all,

My name is Juca, I''m a opensource lover, from Sao Paulo - Brasil
(Brasil, w/ S, please =D)

Languages: java, perl, python, php, asp, c#. 
Starting w/ (and loving) Ruby and Rails. Two days of experience =D

Current job: Intellectual Capital - A brazilian company that develops
bank solutions (humm, I forgot to say about my dark side:
vb/sqlserver)

Last Rails work: hmm.. none =)
Current Rails work: some kind of www.thecounter.com for a friend
(www.neocounter.com.br)

--
juca

Hi, my name is Ryan. I''m from Portland, Oregon

I have been using Ruby and Rails for about two weeks. I think it saved my life. 

I used to do PHP (and before that Flash games) but somehow found
myself in the Java world. I learned a lot there, but waiting 40
seconds to reload an application every time you change something just
drains you.

I''m working for a small startup (2 developers) doing a financial
application. I''m the designer/developer and the other guy is doing the
backend in Oracle. With Java I had no idea how I was going to handle
everything but now it almost seems possible.

Two weeks (part time). Learning Ruby, learning Rails, created 27 model
objects that are fully validated and tested with against the database
with no foreign key conflicts.. wow :)

My last project: (not Rails, but a rewrite may be in order!)
http://www.mateminder.com/

Hello to all Portland people!

Hi, my name is Chris, and I''m from Rocklin, CA, USA.

I''ve been learning and using Rails for a few weeks.  I''m using
Rails for a
personal project, or one I hope to be part of a side business.  But, by day
I work for Adobe Systems; involved in a couple of projects, some using Java,
some using C++, all network or web related.  I just had my second child, a
son who is three weeks old (so, as you can imagine, I''m squeezing my
Rails
work in little by little :).


On 2/11/05 5:28 PM, "Ryan Carver"
<ryan576-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Hi, my name is Ryan. I''m from Portland, Oregon
> 
> I have been using Ruby and Rails for about two weeks. I think it saved my
> life. 
> 
> I used to do PHP (and before that Flash games) but somehow found
> myself in the Java world. I learned a lot there, but waiting 40
> seconds to reload an application every time you change something just
> drains you.
> 
> I''m working for a small startup (2 developers) doing a financial
> application. I''m the designer/developer and the other guy is doing
the
> backend in Oracle. With Java I had no idea how I was going to handle
> everything but now it almost seems possible.
> 
> Two weeks (part time). Learning Ruby, learning Rails, created 27 model
> objects that are fully validated and tested with against the database
> with no foreign key conflicts.. wow :)
> 
> My last project: (not Rails, but a rewrite may be in order!)
> http://www.mateminder.com/
> 
> Hello to all Portland people!
> _______________________________________________
> Rails mailing list
> Rails-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org
> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails

How did you get Rails to  talk to Oracle?

How much of the database do you leverage (i.e., referential integrity
in the DB, etc.)?

-Corey Lawson
wrapping my brain around Rails, esp. to use with XUL, before it''s too
late (Avalon).

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 17:28:14 -0800, Ryan Carver
<ryan576-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Hi, my name is Ryan. I''m from Portland, Oregon
> 
> I have been using Ruby and Rails for about two weeks. I think it saved my
life.
> 
> I used to do PHP (and before that Flash games) but somehow found
> myself in the Java world. I learned a lot there, but waiting 40
> seconds to reload an application every time you change something just
> drains you.
> 
> I''m working for a small startup (2 developers) doing a financial
> application. I''m the designer/developer and the other guy is doing
the
> backend in Oracle. With Java I had no idea how I was going to handle
> everything but now it almost seems possible.
> 
> Two weeks (part time). Learning Ruby, learning Rails, created 27 model
> objects that are fully validated and tested with against the database
> with no foreign key conflicts.. wow :)
> 
> My last project: (not Rails, but a rewrite may be in order!)
> http://www.mateminder.com/
> 
> Hello to all Portland people!
> _______________________________________________
> Rails mailing list
> Rails-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org
> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
>

Howdy all. Amazing to see such a wide range of countries represented
on this list.

About me: 
Name is Jordan Brock, I run Spin Technologies (www.spintech.com.au).
Been building websites of varying complexity for about 8 years now,
originally in ASP but recently in ASP.Net. I like .Net but was looking
for an open source solution that wasn''t PHP. And boy am I happy I
found rails!

I''m currently adding the finishing touches to an ecommerce site,
hopefully it will launch in a week or two. I''ve been using it as my
learning project, hopefully with the aim of using Rails for all of my
dev work.

Thanks to everyone on the list, on IRC and to DHH and all who
contribute to Rails!

Jordan


On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 22:38:41 -0800, Corey Lawson
<corey.ssf.lawson-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> How did you get Rails to  talk to Oracle?
> 
> How much of the database do you leverage (i.e., referential integrity
> in the DB, etc.)?
> 
> -Corey Lawson
> wrapping my brain around Rails, esp. to use with XUL, before it''s
too
> late (Avalon).
> 
> On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 17:28:14 -0800, Ryan Carver
<ryan576-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > Hi, my name is Ryan. I''m from Portland, Oregon
> >
> > I have been using Ruby and Rails for about two weeks. I think it saved
my life.
> >
> > I used to do PHP (and before that Flash games) but somehow found
> > myself in the Java world. I learned a lot there, but waiting 40
> > seconds to reload an application every time you change something just
> > drains you.
> >
> > I''m working for a small startup (2 developers) doing a
financial
> > application. I''m the designer/developer and the other guy is
doing the
> > backend in Oracle. With Java I had no idea how I was going to handle
> > everything but now it almost seems possible.
> >
> > Two weeks (part time). Learning Ruby, learning Rails, created 27 model
> > objects that are fully validated and tested with against the database
> > with no foreign key conflicts.. wow :)
> >
> > My last project: (not Rails, but a rewrite may be in order!)
> > http://www.mateminder.com/
> >
> > Hello to all Portland people!
> > _______________________________________________
> > Rails mailing list
> > Rails-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org
> > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
> >
> _______________________________________________
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> 

-- 
Jordan Brock
Spin Technologies
www.spintech.com.au

I''m Jamis Buck, from Provo, Utah. I''ve been using Ruby for
quite some
time, but only doing serious Rails development since early December.

My day job is at BYU, where I wrote web apps in both C and Java.
Needless to say, after Rails, it is torture to go back to those
environments. Cruel and unusual.

I''ve contributed a few small hacks to Hieraki, am working with DHH on
Basecamp, which is where I really cut my teeth on Rails (there''s
nothing like learning at the feet of a master ;)). I''ve started
a web-based financial application (called BudgetWise), which I''ll be
blogging about as I have time to work on it
(http://jamis.jamisbuck.org).

- Jamis

-- 
Jamis Buck
jamis_buck-8Bzd4dk9+oo@public.gmane.org
http://jamis.jamisbuck.org
------------------------------
"I am Victor of Borge. You will be assimil-nine-ed."

With Jamis showing up, I might as well add my history to the list. 
Jamis introduced me to RoR at a BYU Ruby Users Group meeting (Thanks
Jamis).

Since then, I''ve been able to convince several managers in a small
business to use RoR for our web products.  Our first project (nearing
completion now) is a small trucking / transport on-line booking and
administration system.

Duane Johnson
(canadaduane)

On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 07:56:43 -0700, Jamis Buck
<jamis_buck-8Bzd4dk9+oo@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I''m Jamis Buck, from Provo, Utah. I''ve been using Ruby
for quite some
> time, but only doing serious Rails development since early December.
> 
> My day job is at BYU, where I wrote web apps in both C and Java.
> Needless to say, after Rails, it is torture to go back to those
> environments. Cruel and unusual.
> 
> I''ve contributed a few small hacks to Hieraki, am working with DHH
on
> Basecamp, which is where I really cut my teeth on Rails (there''s
> nothing like learning at the feet of a master ;)). I''ve started
> a web-based financial application (called BudgetWise), which I''ll
be
> blogging about as I have time to work on it
> (http://jamis.jamisbuck.org).
> 
> - Jamis
> 
> --
> Jamis Buck
> jamis_buck-8Bzd4dk9+oo@public.gmane.org
> http://jamis.jamisbuck.org
> ------------------------------
> "I am Victor of Borge. You will be assimil-nine-ed."
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Rails mailing list
> Rails-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org
> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
>

hi,

i''m norman timmler from hamburg, germany, and worked a lot with florian
weber the last months. we started http://www.bellybutton.de on monday
and it was my first rails project.

rails is realy impressing me. it gave us the time to concentrate on the
importent things. i hope i can do more projects with RoR!

bye,
norman


Am Freitag, den 11.02.2005, 22:57 +0100 schrieb Florian
Weber:
> hello!
> 
> my name is florian weber and i''m a freelance software developer
and
> designer
> from hamburg, germany. i''ve worked for clients and brands like 
> universal music,
> nivea, greenpeace, sony, etc.
> 
> latest rails project: http://www.bellybutton.de (cms and shop)
> 
> ciao!
> florian
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Rails mailing list
> Rails-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org
> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
> 
-- 
Norman Timmler
Holländische Reihe 31
22765 Hamburg

+49 (0)40 / 43 25 10 80

mailto:norman-QkIQCVqxERM@public.gmane.org

Hi,

Tom Ayerst - new to Ruby and Rails.

Currently spending most of my time managing but scratching my developer 
itch by developing a lightweight team/project tracking tool (Is this 
like the String class was in the early days of C++ ?). 

I''m very enamoured of both Ruby and Rails, and their communities.

Tom

Curt Hibbs wrote:
>On December 14th, 2004 David Heinemeier Hansson sent this to the mailing
>list:
>
>  I''m seeing a lot of new names on the list. Could
>  we perhaps do a round of introductions? That would
>  also be a great first post, if you haven''t had a
>  chance to contribute yet. The basics should include
>  your name, your organization, your country and city,
>  and the project you''re currently working on.
>
>Its been a couple months since then (ancient history in Rails-time),
I''m
>updating my Rails presentation, and I''d like to include some
information
>about what is being done with Rails.
>
>Below I listed all of the responses from the first round. If your response
>is no longer current, please post a correction. If you missed the first
>round of introductions, please use this as an excuse to let everyone know
>what you are doing.
>
>Thanks,
>Curt
>
>PS
>  Note to Bob Sidebotham: Yes, I remember punched cards & paper tape! 
:-)
>
>
>======= First Round Posts ======>
>David Heinemeier Hansson,
>Working with 37signals
>Live in Copenhagen, Denmark, but are working with
>people in Chicago, US
>Basecamp and the forthcoming Writeboard
>
>======>
>Scott Barron
>Doing rails stuff for Ohio University
>Live in Athens, Ohio
>Public projects:
>  Elite Journal
>  Recipe Box
>
>As far as work related projects at OU go, I''ve got applications
that
>handle things as simple as a student employee schedule, to an app that
>creates and maintains a schedule of movies for the university''s
movie
>channel, to an app that maintains and handles billing for the dining
>hall, and a few more along those lines.  All future projects here will
>be developed in rails and several of our PHP projects have been ported
>to rails.
>
>======>
>Pelle Brændgaard
>Working independently on a range of crypto and financial applications.
>Live permanently in Panama City, Panama but am temporarily in
>Copenhagen, Denmark.
>
>Working on a "topsecret" project using Rails and a range of
opensource
>java code.
>
>======>
>Johan Sörensen
>Currently a freelancer/consultant
>Living in the south of sweden at the moment, currently looking for
>work that''d allow me to use Rails (of course ;)) in one way or
>another.
>
>On the subject of public personal Rails projects I have Collaboa,
>which is a communitywikiforumthingie I''ve created for the swedish
mac
>dev site http://cocoa.se. There is a Trac install available at
>http://collaboa.cocoa.se/trac if anyone wants to have a peek...
>
>======>
>Demetrius Arraes Nunes
>Working on my masters degree in PUC-RJ, Brazil
>I also work on my own e-learning start-up company: Interface Ltd
>(http://www.interface-ti.com.br) (we use .NET there, for now... ;-) )
>I live in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
>My masters degree is about a web modeling technique called OOHDM (Object
>Oriented Hypermedia Design Method) that was "invented" by my
professor,
>Daniel Schwabe (Phd-UCLA), some 10 years ago, that adds a distinct
>"navigational modeling" step in the development cycle. In this
step, you
>map conceptual objects to navigational objects, define navigational
>contexts, indexes, links, anchors and other navigational primitives. I
>am developing a application that is the same time the modeling
>environment (using OOHDM) and the resulting application itself in a kind
>o wiki-like mode where you can edit not only the data, but also the
>model (and metamodel).
>The last (and HUGE) step in my project is to port the MySql
>implementation to a RDF database called Sesame, and that means porting
>ActiveRecord from relational to semantic/rdf. God (and please, David!)
>help me... :-O My deadline is februrary 28th. I am already done with 80%
>of the relational version.
>
>======>
>Chris McGrath
>Currently freelance contractor based in Dublin, Ireland working on VB
>and ASP Stuff (urgh)
>Looking to find work in Rails, or convice my current place to convert
>some of thier apps to Rails.
>Working on a personal finance style application as a means of learning
>Rails and getting rid of GnuCash.
>I''m hoping to contribute something to the project in the new year,
>even if it''s just a couple of minor bugfixes :)
>
>======>
>Peter Johansson
>Working as consultant for a large Fortune 500 company
>Live and work in Stockholm, Sweden
>
>Just beginning to learn Rails (and Ruby) on my spare time and have
>planned to convert a couple of PHP-based apps to Rails. Previously
>I''ve worked most with PHP, Perl and Java.
>
>======>
>Dale Hawkins
>Denver (Littleton), Colorado, US
>
>I have written a couple utilities (a worklog/billing application), and
>I am working on porting a large, ugly php application used by
>government agents (no kidding).  The backend DB is sybase (oh, joy!
>:-( ), so I''ve been working on a sybase adapter whenever I get
around
>to it.  (But I have another job and kids, so progress is very slow
>much of the time).
>
>I''ve been meaning to start a software project management tool using
>rails.  Along the lines of trac but with some scheduling, resource
>tracking, and support for story card/use case design.
>
>======>
>Marcel Molina Jr.
>"Doing rails stuff for" Simon''s Rock College, a small
liberal arts college
>in
>the wilds of Massachusetts that accepts "gifted" students into
college two
>years earlier than usual
>I live in The Berkshires, South Western Massachusetts
>
>Currently working on an online admissions application, errr, application
>so that prospective students can apply to the college online. Also writing
>an application to register student/faculty/staff machines on the network.
>Planning on porting all (or most) existing web applications to Rails.
>Moving toward doing pretty much *everything* here with Rails (if web
>related) or Ruby if not, when appropriate (which is most of the time).
>
>noradio on the #rubyonrails channel, much to david''s distress.
>
>======>
>Jarkko Laine
>Student, athlete and entrepreneur
>Graduating from Tampere University of Technology (hopefully) next year
>Running my own company, O''Design
>Live and prosper in Tampere, Finland (that''s next to Nokia, people)
>Working on my first commercial Rails project at the moment (a simple
>CMS)
>As a personal project I''m developing a Basecamp for athlete groups
and
>trainers, including training diary etc...
>jarkko (surprise?) at #rubyonrails
>
>======>
>Hello, my name is Steve Kellock and I''m a Rails junkie.
>what-a-day on IRC #rubyonrails
>Indy Developer
>Barrie (just north of Toronto), Canada
>
>- Completed a sales application for a client.
>- Currently working on a
>sports-team-management-extranet-type-of-app-thingy (it''d be a lot
>clearer with screen shots).
>- Have a few projects lined up for 2005... guess what I''m going to
>write them with?  (hint: it''s not DOS batch files)
>
>======>
>Kevin Evans, University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK
>
>Currently working on a Rails based blogging application for the
>(http://www.glam.ac.uk) University. Very close to going live, just
>struggling with fcgi stability :-(
>
>regards
>Kevin Evans
>IS Development Manager
>
>======>
>Tanner Burson
>Live in the great state of Oklahoma in the US.
>
>Learning rails in my spare time, for my own personal projects at the
>moment.  Currently writing a multi-user task list of sorts.  Hoping to
>eventually find a client willing to take the plunge as well
>
>======>
>Austin Moody
>MedAlliance Management Group - a small physician consulting firm in
>Johnson City, Tennessee.
>Completely rewritten our old electronic health claims manager in
>Rails/Ruby from PHP/Python.  Also created a custom intranet portal
>manager and a few other small specialized apps.
>austinetsu on #rubyonrails
>
>======>
>I''m Rick Bradley, working as 1 of 4 people (2 developers - the
other
>developer is also on this list) at Base Systems (www.basesys.com) here
>in Nashville, TN.  We''re deploying a few new products for the
medical
>industry (Asterisk-based voice recording systems, handheld applications,
>etc.) and will be converting our medical workflow system (currently
>serving transcription providers) from PHP to Ruby and Rails over the
>next few months.
>
>Since our company is so small we''re heavy into magnifying our
>productivity.  We''ve looked at (best estimate) close to 100
different
>frameworks in multiple languages over the past year and only Rails
>appears to actually reduce the amount of work we have to do.
>
>I''m also gradually converting my various personal toys over to
using
>Rails as well -- I started with the DemoApp accountomatic which is
>working very well for me since porting it over to Rails.  Next is
>probably my jukebox system (rdtj.sourceforge.net), which looks like it
>will end up being Ruby+Madeleine+RGL+FreeBASE+Rails.
>
>======>
>- Sascha Ebach
>- Entrepeneur
>- Living in Troisdorf Germany, which is right in between of Cologne and
>Bonn.
>- MCMS which stands for Magical Content Management Solution
>MCMS will a try to make a cms that ppl want to actually use, but
>nevertheless will have a lot of functionality. It will be magical and it
>will be open source.
>
>ROADMAP
>======>* Unique concentration on usability, web standards and
accessibility
>* Contentrepository as a tree, so you will be able easily extend the
>functionality of a corporate website to a blog with comments, a forum, a
>shop, a whatever. Something along the lines of ezpublish and drupal.
>* Versioning
>* WYSIWYG editing (with FCKEditor, which I find amazing)
>* different views and the administration, so new users and powerusers
>can feel at home
>* Maybe even edit-in-place, like you can see in Bitflux CMS, or LIMB.
>But I am uncertain about that as I think edit in place is not always the
>most generally applicable solution, esp. if you wanna have a cms which
>handles
>* multiple diffrent websites under one adminstration
>* media repository
>* make it possible to turn it in a hostable solution (this one will
>probably by closed source)
>* lots of other things
>
>Current progress is 10%. As I am working on this alone, have a business
>to run (where I can not always program in ruby) and my family to care
>about, progress is not going to be very fast. Hopefully it will be
>something usable within the next 6-12 months. If luck strikes me and if
>what they say about rails is true, than it might be earlier ;)
>
>As soon as I have something usable I will create an enironment where
>collaboration is possible. If you wanna help, please wait a little while
>until I get my act together. Which (I feel sometimes) could never happen
>;) I will announce it on this list.
>
>======>
>Sean Leach
>Ventura, CA
>irc: kicker
>
>Working on several personal projects with rails.  RSS feed aggregator,
>stat management application as well a small ecommerce app, probably
>won''t finish any of them :)
>
>I do 99% of my work in Python when I can, and will continue to do so,
>but Rails is by far the best web framework I have used (and I guarantee
>I have used/built apps with pretty much all of them from the PHP ones to
>the Java ones etc.).  To be honest, I wish there was a Python on Rails
>like has been discussed.  Ruby is a fine language, but I know Python in
>and out and prefer it over Ruby (please do not begin a language war).
>
>======>
>Jim Weirich
>Consultant for Compuware,
>Currently working on-site at a LARGE financial company
>Java programmer by day, Ruby programmer by night (and some day too!)
>Rails Projects:
>* Storycards -- XP like planning tool
>* Misc prototypes
>Non-Rails Ruby Projects
>* Rake -- Ruby''s version of Make
>* RubyGems -- Packaging software
>
>======>
>Lee Marlow
>IRC: mecraw
>Denver (Highlands Ranch), CO, USA
>
>So far I''m just a Ruby/Rails voyeur.  I became interested when Dave
Thomas
>mentioned Ruby at a Java conference.  I hope to do some personal projects in
>Rails, maybe my wedding site.  Hopefully Rails makes web development easy
>enough for a backend Java developer.
>
>======>
>
>Jason Alexander Hoffman
>PhD scientist at the Novartis Institute for Functional Genomic
>Master configurer behind TextDrive
>Live in La Jolla California, and am lucky to work with people who are
>everywhere
>
>NIFG is all perl, java, python (in that order) and some ruby (me) but
>no Rails (yet?)
>My personal pet project is a bioinformatics web app in Rails.
>And I dream at night of a end-user hosting "control panel" in
Rails.
>
>======>
>Jason Alexander Hoffman
>PhD scientist at the Novartis Institute for Functional Genomic
>Master configurer behind TextDrive
>Live in La Jolla California, and am lucky to work with people who are
>everywhere
>
>NIFG is all perl, java, python (in that order) and some ruby (me) but
>no Rails (yet?)
>My personal pet project is a bioinformatics web app in Rails.
>And I dream at night of a end-user hosting "control panel" in
Rails.
>
>======>
>I''m Sam Stephenson; 20 years old, unemployed, on leave from
Virginia
>Polytechnic Institute, and currently living in Chicago, IL, US. A
>recent evaluation has demonstrated that I''m not really good at
>anything, but that doesn''t keep me from enjoying Rails.
>
>I live for Ruby, I''m a huge fan of domain-specific languages, and I
>get really excited by introspection and all the stuff that comes with
>it. I like to build small things out of even smaller things.
>
>I have a tendency to create projects and leave them unmaintained. As a
>subscriber to the Rails list, ou may have encountered two of those:
>Prick[1], an IRC quote application written in Rails, and Paginator
>Helper[2]. If you use Gtk+, there''s also my Gtk::MDI[3] library,
which
>suffers the same fate.
>
>I contribute trivial patches to Rails when I can.
>
>My current project is Timber, a Rails application for Web magazines.
>It lets authors and editors collaborate on articles and makes it easy
>to lay out content. It''s similar to Textpattern[4] but
significantly
>simpler. I''m also playing around with an interactive Web-based
>debugger for Rails which adds a live irb console to your error pages
>with XMLHttpRequest.
>
>You can almost always find me on #rubyonrails as sam-.
>
>======>
>I''m Joe Van Dyk.  I''ve been playing around with Ruby for
about six
>months, and Rails about a month.  Neat stuff.
>
>My "real job" is working for the Integrated Defense Systems
division
>of Boeing.  My recent project there has been using Ruby for a GUI to
>view and control simulations.  As far as I know, I''m the only
person
>at Boeing to use Ruby for anything, but hopefully that will change!
>
>I''m also developing a real estate site using Rails.  Can''t
wait until
>0.9 comes out.
>
>======>
>I am: Bob Sidebotham
>Vancouver, Canada
>
>After spending 30 years writing software in various guises (anyone
>remember punched cards and paper tape?), I had pretty much burned out.
>I spent the last several years looking for another vocation. I''ve
had
>some minor successes, such as an exhibit of hand-processed b&w
>photographs--which I''ve since webified at
>http://windsong.bc.ca/alonetogether). Recently, however, I discovered
>Ruby, and my interest in software was re-kindled.
>
>Several years ago, I wrote the software for managing a small home
>delivery business that provides organic produce and groceries. I''m
>currently considering rewriting that now ancient system in Rails. It
>has to deal with the whole gamut of processes, including inventory
>management, supplier ordering, customer relations, customer ordering,
>warehouse operations, delivery routing, accounting, billing, and
>others.
>
>Ruby and Rails look like they will provide a good foundation for
>creating a maintainable--maybe even elegant--system for this business.
>
>======>
>Samuel Kvarnbrink
>Lives in Umeå, Sweden. Working part-time as a system administrator at
>the university of Umeå, otherwise a freelance developer.
>
>Freelance: Working with the Umeå Krio Corpus, which is a Rails app
>that''s used for managing and analyzing texts written in the Krio
>language for a research project. Krio, which is an Anglo-African Creole
>language spoken in various parts of West Africa, uses some phonetic
>characters for extra vowels and therefore the entire collection (which
>is HUGE and growing!) is encoded using UTF-16. I''ve implemented a
very
>fast text scanner in C that interfaces with Oniguruma, and Rails is
>used to provide a good frontend for it and handle the DB part.
>
>Day job: Working on a _huge_ administrative application for HUMlab, a
>computer lab for people from all disciplines (but with main focus on
>the humanities). The app will manage/create user accounts, handle all
>courses held in the lab (and follow-up surveys), handle reservations,
>provide an interface for an SNMP-based print quota system (which i
>wrote in Ruby, of course) and a lot of other stuff. The app basically
>contains of three components: a Rails frontend, an AR-powered utility
>that handles/creates accounts in OpenLDAP, and the print quota system
>(also AR-powered).
>
>The app is currently in alpha/planning stage, but will replace a less
>maintainable CGI-based Ruby system I wrote a while ago. It''s going
to
>be a _lot_ of work, but due to the efficiency of Rails I''m
estimating
>it to be much less cumbersome than maintaining and developing the old
>app.
>
>======>
>Michael Koziarski
>Live in Wellington New Zealand.
>Working for a Bank,  Java by day ruby by night.
>No public rails projects yet,  but something''s in the works.
>
>======>
>Robert Bousquet
>Front-end developer at the University of Southern California
>Currently re-skinning the USC Scholar''s Portal front-end and
working on
>the USC Digital Archive
>Daydreaming about building Rails apps instead.
>Also running freelance gig, Debut Web Design.
>
>======>
>I''m Jens-Christian Fischer working at my company InVisible GmbH in
Zurich,
>Switzerland.
>Our main line of business are intranet applications for large companies
>(in Lotus Notes mainly)
>
>I have 13+ years of Lotus Notes experience and always dabbled in languages
>on the side (Pascal, Modula-2, Smalltalk, C (argh), C++ (AAARRRGGG), Java,
>awk, Perl, Python and now Ruby
>
>I have several other companies/projects (neural-network stock trading [1],
>p2p email [2] and a semi-secret mud/mush inspired [3] rails project that I
>hope to have live in the next few weeks.
>
>[1] http://www.ivorix.com
>[2] http://www.zappatanetworks.com
>[3] http://amuda.ch
>
>======>
>Jeff Moss
>Sandy, Utah, USA (Salt Lake City suburbia)
>Currently attending University of Utah for a bachelors in business
>administration.
>Day Job: work for a long distance reseller, www.americom.com, where I am
>the only developer employed. Currently overhauling entire website to
>move it out of the early 90''s era, convinced boss to do it in
rails, the
>best framework that I''ve ever investigated, by a long shot. I
believe I
>have David to thank?
>Previous experience has been Perl and PHP, and before that I messed
>around in C/C++. In my free time I play with other languages and am one
>of you who starts many projects and finishes few to none due to other
>invasive interests, although my current project, an ebay tool that
>interfaces with their xml web services, has actually come quite far and
>appears to be finishable, assuming the demons don''t take me first.
>
>======>
>Tobias Lütke
>Stranded German in Ottawa, Canada
>
>Currently I''m doing contract and some consulting work as well as
>several own commercial and private projects.
>100% Of my payed work is done in Rails at this point, i''m one of
the lucky
>few.
>My best known project is probably http://www.snowdevil.ca , a
>full-fledged e-commerce system
>build on rails which hopefully hits its next milestone soon by selling
>some bloody snowboards.
>
>Apart from snowdevil i have been working on Hieraki a collaborative
>book writing tool reusing proven concepts from wikis and tools like
>them. Hieraki has been progressing well and will probably receive a
>real announcement soon as it will be released under the MIT license.
>
>My background is mainly static languages like c and c++ and
>unfortunately some java as well.
>After about 10 years of those you have seen it all...
>
>Ruby rocks !
>
>======>
>Hi, I''m Dan Peterson (danp in #rubyonrails) from Yuma, AZ. I work
for
>the Yuma Educational Consortium which is comprised of the local high
>school district and one of the two elementary districts in the area as
>well as other various entities.
>
>I''ve been using Ruby for mainly procedural text-processing for
about
>four years now and I still do a lot of text data conversion and
>manipulation with it every day. I''m blown away by Rails and how
well
>it all works together. I started out using it trying to write a new
>accounts system with linkage to our two payroll systems. That was a
>bit ambitious so I''ve put that on hold and am working on an app for
>tracking patches to our Oracle-based student information system and am
>having a lot of fun tinkering with it and especially trying out the
>new features that will appear in 0.9.
>
>I can''t wait to implement more things for my customers with Rails;
>both to help them and to let me have fun doing it! :)
>
>======>
>Michel Rasschaert from Paris, France.
>
>I learn the basics of a lot of programming languages as a hobby (too
>many to write here) and I was very soon interested in Ruby. But it
>really is rails that made me use it for real at last.
>
>Professionally I work for a bank doing Delphi work and hopefully
>migrating to Java and introducing some XP concepts (testing,
>continuous integration, IoC, etc.) but it''s hard.
>
>In my spare time (not a lot regretfully) I work on a personal finance
>application on rails :)
>
>======>
>I''ve been doing PHP development for 8 years but have just falled in
>love with Rails. I am currently a senior Physics major attending Reed
>College in Portland, Oregon.
>
>Rails Projects:
>----------------------
>The Conjuring Cabaret - http://magic.rufy.com/
>My first project was to port the first site I created (back in 1996) to
>Rails from an ugly PHP/MySQL setup. The new version has 752 LOC and is
>much more customizable.
>
>Web Collaborator - http://webcollaborator.com/ (in progress)
>Again a port, but this time from a homebrewed MVC PHP backend to Rails.
>It has taken 8 hours to port 90% of the site to Rails compared to the
>two months of scattered development it took for the original site to be
>put together. Including libraries (like Smarty), the PHP version had 30
>KLOCs. Including Rails code, the Rails version has 3 KLOCs (~600 lines
>of non-Rails code). This has been a HUGE improvement and will vastly
>speed up development time for this project. The Rails version should be
>up before the new year.
>
>PATA - http://pataweb.net/
>I am in charge of revamping this site and have decided to do it with
>Rails.
>
>Reed College
>I am going to be building various internal utility pages for Reed
>College''s web presence with Rails.
>
>======>
>My name is Sarah Wedde and I live in Petone, New Zealand.
>
>I''m currently trying to decrapify my weblog thingamy
>(http://onebefore.org/), make myself an application that will totally
>organise my life and fold my laundry, and I''m having a bit of a
play around
>with something to make use of the OpenSource Shakespeare database I
>downloaded during a bout of procrastination.
>
>======>
>My namie is Shyam Gopale and I live in Pune, India.
>
>Currently using rails for developing a web based portal
>for a friend. New to both Ruby and Rails. In my day job
>I develop "Identity Management" products.
>
>======>
>Curt Sampson
>CTO, tabemo.com
>Tokyo, Japan
>
>I''m building a (mostly mobile) website for time-based restaurant
>discounts (e.g., better discounts when the restaurant is not busy).
>Currently I''m battling my way out of PHP and MySQL hell, legacy of
>a previous IT administration here.
>
>Previously I was Chief Architect at vanten.com, where my main project
>was an enterprise management system for a national wireless ISP in
>Japan. That was Java on top of PostgreSQL, and while PostgreSQL can
>compete with the best of them, it increased my frustrations with Java
>to the point I started looking for a new language.
>
>======>
>Name:  Jens Himmelreich
>What:  Working at hanke multimediahaus (www.hmmh.de),
>       Ruby/Rails voyeur
>Where: Living in Bremen, Germany
>Work:  ecommerce-Websites (e.g. www.bonprix.de)
>
>======>
>Name: Magnus Bodin
>Employer: IBM
>Country, City: Sweden, Malmö
>
>Current project: Private Web project, will be public 2005Q1
>
>We are currently two rails-fans at the IBM-office in Malmö.
>I hope that this will lead to something in the future.
>
>=======>
>Who:   Stefano Cobianchi
>Where: Milan, Italy
>What:  Using Ruby everywhere I can (currently it powers the server-side
>       of our email-marketing application); trying to promote Rails
>       as a replacement for our ugly home-brewed PHP frameworks (urgh)
>Why:   Well, given the choice among PHP, Java and Ruby, what would a
>       sane person do? :-)
>
>======>
>Erno Mononen
>Living in  Jyväskylä, Finland
>
>Developing sustainability  management  software using Java,  new  both
>to Ruby and Rails.  I''ve been experimenting with Rails for couple
>weeks now and I have to say I''m really impressed by the
productivity
>boost that  it offers. Looking for opportunities to use it in my daily
>work.
>
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> CUT 
I''m Nicholas Wieland, I''m working here in Mantua (Italy) as a
Python/Zope developer and sometimes with PhP.
I''m actually using Rails for my personal site and an e-learning
application.
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nicholas_wieland-at-yahoo-dot-it

I''m Rob Wheaton, currently based in Toronto. I''ve been a
freelance PHP
developer for a number of years, now looking to make the jump to, well, 
Ruby. I''m currently working on a publishing system for a magazine, 
after which I expect I will rework a CMS I wrote for a number of art 
galleries a couple of years ago.

Cheers,
Rob

I''m Dominic Sisneros, living in Salt Lake City, Ut.  I am currently 
using rails for a department at my work.  I am developing something to 
keep track of schedules for projects.  The problem is that an outside 
group is setting the schedule and using Excel to publish it to us.  I am 
using diff-lcs to generate crud changelogs and updating the database 
from that.

Also, am going to use rails to automate a lot of our department workflows

Dom

> On December 14th, 2004 David Heinemeier Hansson sent this to the mailing
> list:
>
>  I''m seeing a lot of new names on the list. Could
>  we perhaps do a round of introductions? That would
>  also be a great first post, if you haven''t had a
>  chance to contribute yet. The basics should include
>  your name, your organization, your country and city,
>  and the project you''re currently working on.
>
> Its been a couple months since then (ancient history in Rails-time),
I''m
> updating my Rails presentation, and I''d like to include some
information
> about what is being done with Rails.
>
> Below I listed all of the responses from the first round. If your 
> response
> is no longer current, please post a correction. If you missed the first
> round of introductions, please use this as an excuse to let everyone know
> what you are doing.
>
> Thanks,
> Curt
Good morning,

Working for a ISP and looking at using Rails to create our replacement 
client/service management system. I''ve used Frontier, PHP(BinaryCloud),
Zope.

Seems a lot of projects get started to replace heavy tools and then 
become heavy themselves. Hoping rails stays a lightweight framework 
rather then trying to become the do all/end all to web development.

DAve

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Robert Wheaton wrote:
> I''m Rob Wheaton, currently based in Toronto. I''ve been a
freelance PHP
> developer for a number of years, now looking to make the jump to, well, 
> Ruby. I''m currently working on a publishing system for a magazine,
after
> which I expect I will rework a CMS I wrote for a number of art galleries 
> a couple of years ago.
Hey Rob - good to see a fellow Canadian on the list.  So far, you''re
the
only one I''ve come across.

I''m based in St. Catharines (near Niagara Falls) and, like you, also
cut
my teeth on PHP.  In fact, my work with similar php/mvc frameworks like 
Mojavi and Prado is what led me to Rails, which as I''m sure
you''re
noticing, is a pretty big productivity booster.

I''m also working on an open-source cms in Rails, so if you''re
ever in
the mood to contribute, that would be awesome.  And hey, maybe if we can 
round up a few more RoR folks from around southern Ontario, we could 
start up a user group.

Good luck riding the rails!

/Jeff

It looks like I am late to the party...

My name is Dave Holsclaw and I live near Saint Louis, Missouri, USA. I 
currently work in C# and daydream about how much easier it would all be 
in RoR.

I have been enjoying Ruby since the first edition of the pickaxe book 
was released but Rails is what has taken it from an novelty to 
something to which I''m devoting all my attention. I have been 
developing professionally longer than I care to mention and RoR is the 
most exciting thing I''ve found in years.

I''ve been working on a simple time sheet application for a friend. 
Every time I think that I''m about done, I''ve learned more
about Ruby or
Rails and end up rewriting it. Luckily with RoR that doesn''t mean 
throwing away much code.

Thanks to DHH for getting all this started! Thanks to Curt for bringing 
us all out from under our rocks!

If there are any other Ruby or Rails folks near Saint Louis (I know 
about Curt and myself) then drop me an email. I would like to organize 
a monthly meeting (over a coffee or beer) just to see what people are 
doing with Ruby.

Later.
---
Dave

Beau O''Hara
Doing rails stuff for fun, I no longer earn my living as a web developer, but
rails really piqued my interest.
Live in Chicago, IL

Projects:  Dreaming of a basecamp-ish CRM/ERP app for small businesses.
I''ve actually just began designing the interface, I would really be
interested in knowing if any one else would like to develop something like this.
It may take an eternity by myself.

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[mailto:rails-bounces-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org] On
Behalf Of Curt Hibbs
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 7:52 PM
To: Rails-ML
Subject: [Rails] Introduce yourself and your project -- Round 2

On December 14th, 2004 David Heinemeier Hansson sent this to the mailing
list:

  I''m seeing a lot of new names on the list. Could
  we perhaps do a round of introductions? That would
  also be a great first post, if you haven''t had a
  chance to contribute yet. The basics should include
  your name, your organization, your country and city,
  and the project you''re currently working on.

Its been a couple months since then (ancient history in Rails-time),
I''m updating my Rails presentation, and I''d like to include
some information about what is being done with Rails.

Below I listed all of the responses from the first round. If your response is no
longer current, please post a correction. If you missed the first round of
introductions, please use this as an excuse to let everyone know what you are
doing.

Thanks,
Curt

PS
  Note to Bob Sidebotham: Yes, I remember punched cards & paper tape!  :-)


======= First Round Posts ======
David Heinemeier Hansson,
Working with 37signals
Live in Copenhagen, Denmark, but are working with people in Chicago, US Basecamp
and the forthcoming Writeboard

======
Scott Barron
Doing rails stuff for Ohio University
Live in Athens, Ohio
Public projects:
  Elite Journal
  Recipe Box

As far as work related projects at OU go, I''ve got applications that
handle things as simple as a student employee schedule, to an app that creates
and maintains a schedule of movies for the university''s movie channel,
to an app that maintains and handles billing for the dining hall, and a few more
along those lines.  All future projects here will be developed in rails and
several of our PHP projects have been ported to rails.

======
Pelle Brændgaard
Working independently on a range of crypto and financial applications.
Live permanently in Panama City, Panama but am temporarily in Copenhagen,
Denmark.

Working on a "topsecret" project using Rails and a range of opensource
java code.

======
Johan Sörensen
Currently a freelancer/consultant
Living in the south of sweden at the moment, currently looking for work
that''d allow me to use Rails (of course ;)) in one way or another.

On the subject of public personal Rails projects I have Collaboa, which is a
communitywikiforumthingie I''ve created for the swedish mac dev site
http://cocoa.se. There is a Trac install available at
http://collaboa.cocoa.se/trac if anyone wants to have a peek...

======
Demetrius Arraes Nunes
Working on my masters degree in PUC-RJ, Brazil I also work on my own e-learning
start-up company: Interface Ltd
(http://www.interface-ti.com.br) (we use .NET there, for now... ;-) ) I live in
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil My masters degree is about a web modeling technique
called OOHDM (Object Oriented Hypermedia Design Method) that was
"invented" by my professor, Daniel Schwabe (Phd-UCLA), some 10 years
ago, that adds a distinct "navigational modeling" step in the
development cycle. In this step, you map conceptual objects to navigational
objects, define navigational contexts, indexes, links, anchors and other
navigational primitives. I am developing a application that is the same time the
modeling environment (using OOHDM) and the resulting application itself in a
kind o wiki-like mode where you can edit not only the data, but also the model
(and metamodel).
The last (and HUGE) step in my project is to port the MySql implementation to a
RDF database called Sesame, and that means porting ActiveRecord from relational
to semantic/rdf. God (and please, David!) help me... :-O My deadline is
februrary 28th. I am already done with 80% of the relational version.

======
Chris McGrath
Currently freelance contractor based in Dublin, Ireland working on VB and ASP
Stuff (urgh) Looking to find work in Rails, or convice my current place to
convert some of thier apps to Rails.
Working on a personal finance style application as a means of learning Rails and
getting rid of GnuCash.
I''m hoping to contribute something to the project in the new year, even
if it''s just a couple of minor bugfixes :)

======
Peter Johansson
Working as consultant for a large Fortune 500 company Live and work in
Stockholm, Sweden

Just beginning to learn Rails (and Ruby) on my spare time and have planned to
convert a couple of PHP-based apps to Rails. Previously I''ve worked
most with PHP, Perl and Java.

======
Dale Hawkins
Denver (Littleton), Colorado, US

I have written a couple utilities (a worklog/billing application), and I am
working on porting a large, ugly php application used by government agents (no
kidding).  The backend DB is sybase (oh, joy!
:-( ), so I''ve been working on a sybase adapter whenever I get around
to it.  (But I have another job and kids, so progress is very slow much of the
time).

I''ve been meaning to start a software project management tool using
rails.  Along the lines of trac but with some scheduling, resource tracking, and
support for story card/use case design.

======
Marcel Molina Jr.
"Doing rails stuff for" Simon''s Rock College, a small liberal
arts college in the wilds of Massachusetts that accepts "gifted"
students into college two years earlier than usual I live in The Berkshires,
South Western Massachusetts

Currently working on an online admissions application, errr, application so that
prospective students can apply to the college online. Also writing an
application to register student/faculty/staff machines on the network.
Planning on porting all (or most) existing web applications to Rails.
Moving toward doing pretty much *everything* here with Rails (if web
related) or Ruby if not, when appropriate (which is most of the time).

noradio on the #rubyonrails channel, much to david''s distress.

======
Jarkko Laine
Student, athlete and entrepreneur
Graduating from Tampere University of Technology (hopefully) next year Running
my own company, O''Design Live and prosper in Tampere, Finland
(that''s next to Nokia, people) Working on my first commercial Rails
project at the moment (a simple
CMS)
As a personal project I''m developing a Basecamp for athlete groups and
trainers, including training diary etc...
jarkko (surprise?) at #rubyonrails

======
Hello, my name is Steve Kellock and I''m a Rails junkie.
what-a-day on IRC #rubyonrails
Indy Developer
Barrie (just north of Toronto), Canada

- Completed a sales application for a client.
- Currently working on a
sports-team-management-extranet-type-of-app-thingy (it''d be a lot
clearer with screen shots).
- Have a few projects lined up for 2005... guess what I''m going to
write them with?  (hint: it''s not DOS batch files)

======
Kevin Evans, University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK

Currently working on a Rails based blogging application for the
(http://www.glam.ac.uk) University. Very close to going live, just struggling
with fcgi stability :-(

regards
Kevin Evans
IS Development Manager

======
Tanner Burson
Live in the great state of Oklahoma in the US.

Learning rails in my spare time, for my own personal projects at the moment. 
Currently writing a multi-user task list of sorts.  Hoping to eventually find a
client willing to take the plunge as well

======
Austin Moody
MedAlliance Management Group - a small physician consulting firm in Johnson
City, Tennessee.
Completely rewritten our old electronic health claims manager in Rails/Ruby from
PHP/Python.  Also created a custom intranet portal manager and a few other small
specialized apps.
austinetsu on #rubyonrails

======
I''m Rick Bradley, working as 1 of 4 people (2 developers - the other
developer is also on this list) at Base Systems (www.basesys.com) here in
Nashville, TN.  We''re deploying a few new products for the medical
industry (Asterisk-based voice recording systems, handheld applications,
etc.) and will be converting our medical workflow system (currently serving
transcription providers) from PHP to Ruby and Rails over the next few months.

Since our company is so small we''re heavy into magnifying our
productivity.  We''ve looked at (best estimate) close to 100 different
frameworks in multiple languages over the past year and only Rails appears to
actually reduce the amount of work we have to do.

I''m also gradually converting my various personal toys over to using
Rails as well -- I started with the DemoApp accountomatic which is working very
well for me since porting it over to Rails.  Next is probably my jukebox system
(rdtj.sourceforge.net), which looks like it will end up being
Ruby+Madeleine+RGL+FreeBASE+Rails.

======
- Sascha Ebach
- Entrepeneur
- Living in Troisdorf Germany, which is right in between of Cologne and Bonn.
- MCMS which stands for Magical Content Management Solution MCMS will a try to
make a cms that ppl want to actually use, but nevertheless will have a lot of
functionality. It will be magical and it will be open source.

ROADMAP
======* Unique concentration on usability, web standards and accessibility
* Contentrepository as a tree, so you will be able easily extend the
functionality of a corporate website to a blog with comments, a forum, a shop, a
whatever. Something along the lines of ezpublish and drupal.
* Versioning
* WYSIWYG editing (with FCKEditor, which I find amazing)
* different views and the administration, so new users and powerusers can feel
at home
* Maybe even edit-in-place, like you can see in Bitflux CMS, or LIMB.
But I am uncertain about that as I think edit in place is not always the most
generally applicable solution, esp. if you wanna have a cms which handles
* multiple diffrent websites under one adminstration
* media repository
* make it possible to turn it in a hostable solution (this one will probably by
closed source)
* lots of other things

Current progress is 10%. As I am working on this alone, have a business to run
(where I can not always program in ruby) and my family to care about, progress
is not going to be very fast. Hopefully it will be something usable within the
next 6-12 months. If luck strikes me and if what they say about rails is true,
than it might be earlier ;)

As soon as I have something usable I will create an enironment where
collaboration is possible. If you wanna help, please wait a little while until I
get my act together. Which (I feel sometimes) could never happen
;) I will announce it on this list.

======
Sean Leach
Ventura, CA
irc: kicker

Working on several personal projects with rails.  RSS feed aggregator, stat
management application as well a small ecommerce app, probably won''t
finish any of them :)

I do 99% of my work in Python when I can, and will continue to do so, but Rails
is by far the best web framework I have used (and I guarantee I have used/built
apps with pretty much all of them from the PHP ones to the Java ones etc.).  To
be honest, I wish there was a Python on Rails like has been discussed.  Ruby is
a fine language, but I know Python in and out and prefer it over Ruby (please do
not begin a language war).

======
Jim Weirich
Consultant for Compuware,
Currently working on-site at a LARGE financial company Java programmer by day,
Ruby programmer by night (and some day too!) Rails Projects:
* Storycards -- XP like planning tool
* Misc prototypes
Non-Rails Ruby Projects
* Rake -- Ruby''s version of Make
* RubyGems -- Packaging software

======
Lee Marlow
IRC: mecraw
Denver (Highlands Ranch), CO, USA

So far I''m just a Ruby/Rails voyeur.  I became interested when Dave
Thomas mentioned Ruby at a Java conference.  I hope to do some personal projects
in Rails, maybe my wedding site.  Hopefully Rails makes web development easy
enough for a backend Java developer.

======

Jason Alexander Hoffman
PhD scientist at the Novartis Institute for Functional Genomic Master configurer
behind TextDrive Live in La Jolla California, and am lucky to work with people
who are everywhere

NIFG is all perl, java, python (in that order) and some ruby (me) but no Rails
(yet?) My personal pet project is a bioinformatics web app in Rails.
And I dream at night of a end-user hosting "control panel" in Rails.

======
Jason Alexander Hoffman
PhD scientist at the Novartis Institute for Functional Genomic Master configurer
behind TextDrive Live in La Jolla California, and am lucky to work with people
who are everywhere

NIFG is all perl, java, python (in that order) and some ruby (me) but no Rails
(yet?) My personal pet project is a bioinformatics web app in Rails.
And I dream at night of a end-user hosting "control panel" in Rails.

======
I''m Sam Stephenson; 20 years old, unemployed, on leave from Virginia
Polytechnic Institute, and currently living in Chicago, IL, US. A recent
evaluation has demonstrated that I''m not really good at anything, but
that doesn''t keep me from enjoying Rails.

I live for Ruby, I''m a huge fan of domain-specific languages, and I get
really excited by introspection and all the stuff that comes with it. I like to
build small things out of even smaller things.

I have a tendency to create projects and leave them unmaintained. As a
subscriber to the Rails list, ou may have encountered two of those:
Prick[1], an IRC quote application written in Rails, and Paginator Helper[2]. If
you use Gtk+, there''s also my Gtk::MDI[3] library, which suffers the
same fate.

I contribute trivial patches to Rails when I can.

My current project is Timber, a Rails application for Web magazines.
It lets authors and editors collaborate on articles and makes it easy to lay out
content. It''s similar to Textpattern[4] but significantly simpler.
I''m also playing around with an interactive Web-based debugger for
Rails which adds a live irb console to your error pages with XMLHttpRequest.

You can almost always find me on #rubyonrails as sam-.

======
I''m Joe Van Dyk.  I''ve been playing around with Ruby for about
six months, and Rails about a month.  Neat stuff.

My "real job" is working for the Integrated Defense Systems division
of Boeing.  My recent project there has been using Ruby for a GUI to view and
control simulations.  As far as I know, I''m the only person at Boeing
to use Ruby for anything, but hopefully that will change!

I''m also developing a real estate site using Rails.  Can''t
wait until
0.9 comes out.

======
I am: Bob Sidebotham
Vancouver, Canada

After spending 30 years writing software in various guises (anyone remember
punched cards and paper tape?), I had pretty much burned out.
I spent the last several years looking for another vocation. I''ve had
some minor successes, such as an exhibit of hand-processed b&w
photographs--which I''ve since webified at
http://windsong.bc.ca/alonetogether). Recently, however, I discovered Ruby, and
my interest in software was re-kindled.

Several years ago, I wrote the software for managing a small home delivery
business that provides organic produce and groceries. I''m currently
considering rewriting that now ancient system in Rails. It has to deal with the
whole gamut of processes, including inventory management, supplier ordering,
customer relations, customer ordering, warehouse operations, delivery routing,
accounting, billing, and others.

Ruby and Rails look like they will provide a good foundation for creating a
maintainable--maybe even elegant--system for this business.

======
Samuel Kvarnbrink
Lives in Umeå, Sweden. Working part-time as a system administrator at the
university of Umeå, otherwise a freelance developer.

Freelance: Working with the Umeå Krio Corpus, which is a Rails app
that''s used for managing and analyzing texts written in the Krio
language for a research project. Krio, which is an Anglo-African Creole language
spoken in various parts of West Africa, uses some phonetic characters for extra
vowels and therefore the entire collection (which is HUGE and growing!) is
encoded using UTF-16. I''ve implemented a very fast text scanner in C
that interfaces with Oniguruma, and Rails is used to provide a good frontend for
it and handle the DB part.

Day job: Working on a _huge_ administrative application for HUMlab, a computer
lab for people from all disciplines (but with main focus on the humanities). The
app will manage/create user accounts, handle all courses held in the lab (and
follow-up surveys), handle reservations, provide an interface for an SNMP-based
print quota system (which i wrote in Ruby, of course) and a lot of other stuff.
The app basically contains of three components: a Rails frontend, an AR-powered
utility that handles/creates accounts in OpenLDAP, and the print quota system
(also AR-powered).

The app is currently in alpha/planning stage, but will replace a less
maintainable CGI-based Ruby system I wrote a while ago. It''s going to
be a _lot_ of work, but due to the efficiency of Rails I''m estimating
it to be much less cumbersome than maintaining and developing the old app.

======
Michael Koziarski
Live in Wellington New Zealand.
Working for a Bank,  Java by day ruby by night.
No public rails projects yet,  but something''s in the works.

======
Robert Bousquet
Front-end developer at the University of Southern California Currently
re-skinning the USC Scholar''s Portal front-end and working on the USC
Digital Archive Daydreaming about building Rails apps instead.
Also running freelance gig, Debut Web Design.

======
I''m Jens-Christian Fischer working at my company InVisible GmbH in
Zurich, Switzerland.
Our main line of business are intranet applications for large companies (in
Lotus Notes mainly)

I have 13+ years of Lotus Notes experience and always dabbled in languages on
the side (Pascal, Modula-2, Smalltalk, C (argh), C++ (AAARRRGGG), Java, awk,
Perl, Python and now Ruby

I have several other companies/projects (neural-network stock trading [1], p2p
email [2] and a semi-secret mud/mush inspired [3] rails project that I hope to
have live in the next few weeks.

[1] http://www.ivorix.com
[2] http://www.zappatanetworks.com
[3] http://amuda.ch

======
Jeff Moss
Sandy, Utah, USA (Salt Lake City suburbia) Currently attending University of
Utah for a bachelors in business administration.
Day Job: work for a long distance reseller, www.americom.com, where I am the
only developer employed. Currently overhauling entire website to move it out of
the early 90''s era, convinced boss to do it in rails, the best
framework that I''ve ever investigated, by a long shot. I believe I have
David to thank?
Previous experience has been Perl and PHP, and before that I messed around in
C/C++. In my free time I play with other languages and am one of you who starts
many projects and finishes few to none due to other invasive interests, although
my current project, an ebay tool that interfaces with their xml web services,
has actually come quite far and appears to be finishable, assuming the demons
don''t take me first.

======
Tobias Lütke
Stranded German in Ottawa, Canada

Currently I''m doing contract and some consulting work as well as
several own commercial and private projects.
100% Of my payed work is done in Rails at this point, i''m one of the
lucky few.
My best known project is probably http://www.snowdevil.ca , a full-fledged
e-commerce system build on rails which hopefully hits its next milestone soon by
selling some bloody snowboards.

Apart from snowdevil i have been working on Hieraki a collaborative book writing
tool reusing proven concepts from wikis and tools like them. Hieraki has been
progressing well and will probably receive a real announcement soon as it will
be released under the MIT license.

My background is mainly static languages like c and c++ and unfortunately some
java as well.
After about 10 years of those you have seen it all...

Ruby rocks !

======
Hi, I''m Dan Peterson (danp in #rubyonrails) from Yuma, AZ. I work for
the Yuma Educational Consortium which is comprised of the local high school
district and one of the two elementary districts in the area as well as other
various entities.

I''ve been using Ruby for mainly procedural text-processing for about
four years now and I still do a lot of text data conversion and manipulation
with it every day. I''m blown away by Rails and how well it all works
together. I started out using it trying to write a new accounts system with
linkage to our two payroll systems. That was a bit ambitious so I''ve
put that on hold and am working on an app for tracking patches to our
Oracle-based student information system and am having a lot of fun tinkering
with it and especially trying out the new features that will appear in 0.9.

I can''t wait to implement more things for my customers with Rails; both
to help them and to let me have fun doing it! :)

======
Michel Rasschaert from Paris, France.

I learn the basics of a lot of programming languages as a hobby (too many to
write here) and I was very soon interested in Ruby. But it really is rails that
made me use it for real at last.

Professionally I work for a bank doing Delphi work and hopefully migrating to
Java and introducing some XP concepts (testing, continuous integration, IoC,
etc.) but it''s hard.

In my spare time (not a lot regretfully) I work on a personal finance
application on rails :)

======
I''ve been doing PHP development for 8 years but have just falled in
love with Rails. I am currently a senior Physics major attending Reed College in
Portland, Oregon.

Rails Projects:
----------------------
The Conjuring Cabaret - http://magic.rufy.com/ My first project was to port the
first site I created (back in 1996) to Rails from an ugly PHP/MySQL setup. The
new version has 752 LOC and is much more customizable.

Web Collaborator - http://webcollaborator.com/ (in progress) Again a port, but
this time from a homebrewed MVC PHP backend to Rails.
It has taken 8 hours to port 90% of the site to Rails compared to the two months
of scattered development it took for the original site to be put together.
Including libraries (like Smarty), the PHP version had 30 KLOCs. Including Rails
code, the Rails version has 3 KLOCs (~600 lines of non-Rails code). This has
been a HUGE improvement and will vastly speed up development time for this
project. The Rails version should be up before the new year.

PATA - http://pataweb.net/
I am in charge of revamping this site and have decided to do it with Rails.

Reed College
I am going to be building various internal utility pages for Reed
College''s web presence with Rails.

======
My name is Sarah Wedde and I live in Petone, New Zealand.

I''m currently trying to decrapify my weblog thingamy
(http://onebefore.org/), make myself an application that will totally organise
my life and fold my laundry, and I''m having a bit of a play around with
something to make use of the OpenSource Shakespeare database I downloaded during
a bout of procrastination.

======
My namie is Shyam Gopale and I live in Pune, India.

Currently using rails for developing a web based portal for a friend. New to
both Ruby and Rails. In my day job I develop "Identity Management"
products.

======
Curt Sampson
CTO, tabemo.com
Tokyo, Japan

I''m building a (mostly mobile) website for time-based restaurant
discounts (e.g., better discounts when the restaurant is not busy).
Currently I''m battling my way out of PHP and MySQL hell, legacy of a
previous IT administration here.

Previously I was Chief Architect at vanten.com, where my main project was an
enterprise management system for a national wireless ISP in Japan. That was Java
on top of PostgreSQL, and while PostgreSQL can compete with the best of them, it
increased my frustrations with Java to the point I started looking for a new
language.

======
Name:  Jens Himmelreich
What:  Working at hanke multimediahaus (www.hmmh.de),
       Ruby/Rails voyeur
Where: Living in Bremen, Germany
Work:  ecommerce-Websites (e.g. www.bonprix.de)

======
Name: Magnus Bodin
Employer: IBM
Country, City: Sweden, Malmö

Current project: Private Web project, will be public 2005Q1

We are currently two rails-fans at the IBM-office in Malmö.
I hope that this will lead to something in the future.

=======
Who:   Stefano Cobianchi
Where: Milan, Italy
What:  Using Ruby everywhere I can (currently it powers the server-side
       of our email-marketing application); trying to promote Rails
       as a replacement for our ugly home-brewed PHP frameworks (urgh)
Why:   Well, given the choice among PHP, Java and Ruby, what would a
       sane person do? :-)

======
Erno Mononen
Living in  Jyväskylä, Finland

Developing sustainability  management  software using Java,  new  both to Ruby
and Rails.  I''ve been experimenting with Rails for couple weeks now and
I have to say I''m really impressed by the productivity boost that  it
offers. Looking for opportunities to use it in my daily work.

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Hello, my name is Dennis Spaag.  I am a developer in Chicago, IL for Gorilla
Polymedia, Inc.  We mainly design and build web applications for companies.
I am new to Ruby and Rails but am a few weeks away from relaunching a
personal site as a first RoR project.  It''s a small photo album site
for our
extended family and requires login.  Using Tobias'' login generator for
that.
Thanks!

Hi folks,

My name is Rodrigo and I''m another rails freak from Brasil.  I ve
working in a  telecom report system using rails and mysql for my
current employee.

regards!

--
Rodrigo (aka caffo)


On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 21:51:57 -0200, Juraci Krohling Costa
<partenon-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> My name is Juca, I''m a opensource lover, from Sao Paulo - Brasil
> (Brasil, w/ S, please =D)
> 
> Languages: java, perl, python, php, asp, c#.
> Starting w/ (and loving) Ruby and Rails. Two days of experience =D
> 
> Current job: Intellectual Capital - A brazilian company that develops
> bank solutions (humm, I forgot to say about my dark side:
> vb/sqlserver)
> 
> Last Rails work: hmm.. none =)
> Current Rails work: some kind of www.thecounter.com for a friend
> (www.neocounter.com.br)
> 
> --
> juca
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On Feb 14, 2005, at 18:46, Jeffrey Hardy wrote:
> Robert Wheaton wrote:
>> I''m Rob Wheaton, currently based in Toronto. I''ve
been a freelance
>> PHP developer for a number of years, now looking to make the jump to, 
>> well, Ruby. I''m currently working on a publishing system for a
>> magazine, after which I expect I will rework a CMS I wrote for a 
>> number of art galleries a couple of years ago.
>
> Hey Rob - good to see a fellow Canadian on the list.  So far,
you''re
> the only one I''ve come across.
Didn''t my "introduce yourself" post come across? I''m
in Toronto. Will
repost if not. Let me know.

Reid

Hello,

My name is David Clements.  Just starting with Ruby and Rails.  I
don''t have a project yet but am confident that rails will change the
world.

An idealist,

Dave


On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 22:59:15 -0500, Reid Ellis
<rae-TiXfJ8ZWoNs@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Feb 14, 2005, at 18:46, Jeffrey Hardy wrote:
> > Robert Wheaton wrote:
> >> I''m Rob Wheaton, currently based in Toronto.
I''ve been a freelance
> >> PHP developer for a number of years, now looking to make the jump
to,
> >> well, Ruby. I''m currently working on a publishing system
for a
> >> magazine, after which I expect I will rework a CMS I wrote for a
> >> number of art galleries a couple of years ago.
> >
> > Hey Rob - good to see a fellow Canadian on the list.  So far,
you''re
> > the only one I''ve come across.
> 
> Didn''t my "introduce yourself" post come across?
I''m in Toronto. Will
> repost if not. Let me know.
> 
> Reid
> 
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Hey folks,

I''m Tim Lucas from Sydney and am entering the RoR world after 
developing in CFMX, J2EE and PHP. I have a strong interest in usability 
and I work for a few organisations (including my own) doing web 
development and cocoa app development.

I''ve always been on the lookout for a web development platform that is 
both well architected and removes the drudge -- and I think i''ve found 
just the right one =)

I have a few projects on the horizon which I''d like to use RoR for, but
first I need to put some of our j2ee apps head-to-head with their RoR 
equivalents to get some heads turning.

I''m enjoying being a part of the RoR community (albeit a passive member
atm), mostly because I feel there''s sense of appreciation for both 
software design and usability.

A big Cheers!! to David for packaging up all of your hard work and 
continuing development! Have you an address that we can all send 
postcards to?

-- tim lucas

http://www.toolmantim.com

> A big Cheers!! to David for packaging up all of your hard work and 
> continuing development! Have you an address that we can all send 
> postcards to?
Haha. I remember that from the good ol'' days of Amiga software. The 
"postcardware". Register by sending a postcard.

Well, sure:

David Heinemeier Hansson
Hyacintvej 16 st
2300 København S
DENMARK

Send away :)
--
David Heinemeier Hansson,
http://www.basecamphq.com/   -- Web-based Project Management
http://www.rubyonrails.org/  -- Web-application framework for Ruby
http://www.loudthinking.com/ -- Broadcasting Brain

Hi,
My name is Massimo Nervi, from Genova, Italy. I''m new to RailsOnRuby
and Ruby
but very interested on it. Currently, I''m working on OLAP projects.
I''m also a
open-source java developer.

Massimo


Curt Hibbs wrote:
>On December 14th, 2004 David Heinemeier Hansson sent this to the 
>mailing
>list:
>
>  I''m seeing a lot of new names on the list. Could  we perhaps do a
> round of introductions? That would  also be a great first post, if you 
> haven''t had a  chance to contribute yet. The basics should include
> your name, your organization, your country and city,  and the project 
> you''re currently working on.
>
>Its been a couple months since then (ancient history in Rails-time), 
>I''m updating my Rails presentation, and I''d like to
include some
>information about what is being done with Rails.
>
>Below I listed all of the responses from the first round. If your 
>response is no longer current, please post a correction. If you missed 
>the first round of introductions, please use this as an excuse to let 
>everyone know what you are doing.
>
>Thanks,
>Curt


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Hello,

I''m a 3 years experienced programmer who fell into web/database
development after graduating from the Computer Engineering Technology
program at St. Lawrence College in Kingston, Ontario. I''m developing a
project management application for a health research organization here
at UBC in Vancouver. It''s written in PHP, but I''m seriously
considering porting to RoR at some point. My only rails app so far is
just a retooling of the todo list tutorial into a contacts database
for our communications director. I''m new to Ruby, but any language
that can inspire a howto as wierd and whimsical as Why''s Poignant
Guide is bound to have me hooked.

Keep up the good work.

James Hughes

Hello,

My name is Sergio Rael and I live in Alicante, Spain. I have been
developing some websites in PHP with my girlfriend, a very good web
designer, to help us pay our new apartment. We will get married next
year, hopefully, and that means that I will need to move to another
province: Valencia. Instead of looking for a job there, I hope to be
self employed doing web development and, why not, start our own
company. We have two promising projects in mind and Rails fits
perfectly at least one of them.

I am learning Ruby now and I just can say that I love it. I hope to
start with Rails very soon. The quick development, simplicity and
power of Rails is just what I need.

Thank you very much to all of you that contribute to Rails and Ruby.

Sergio

On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 19:52:26 -0600, Curt Hibbs
<curt-fk6st7iWb8MAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> On December 14th, 2004 David Heinemeier Hansson sent this to the mailing
> list:
> 
>   I''m seeing a lot of new names on the list. Could
>   we perhaps do a round of introductions? That would
>   also be a great first post, if you haven''t had a
>   chance to contribute yet. The basics should include
>   your name, your organization, your country and city,
>   and the project you''re currently working on.
> 
> Its been a couple months since then (ancient history in Rails-time),
I''m
> updating my Rails presentation, and I''d like to include some
information
> about what is being done with Rails.

I''ve never been big on formal introductions, so I''ll keep this
short ;)

My name is Rob, and I''ve been a self-taught computer geek for as long
as I can remember. I''ve been tinkering with various web technologies
for years, and perl has always been my favorite programming language,
mostly for the regex. My current website is powered by blosxom, with a
few custom plugins that I wrote myself -- overall it''s just a big mess
of perl code, really.

For the last few months I''d been hearing about how ruby combines the
simplicity of python with the expressiveness of perl, and I''ve been
meaning to learn it ever since. Now I''ve discovered rails, and
I''m
even more motivated to learn ;)

So for right now, I''m content to just play with rails, setting up
various test projects and following tutorials and such. I don''t want
to rush to replace my website with rails until I''ve learned more. I
want to take my time, learn as much as I can, so that when I do change
my website to rails, I can do things The Right Way (tm).

On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 19:52:26 -0600, Curt Hibbs
<curt-fk6st7iWb8MAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> On December 14th, 2004 David Heinemeier Hansson sent this to the mailing
> list:
>
>   I''m seeing a lot of new names on the list. Could
>   we perhaps do a round of introductions? That would
>   also be a great first post, if you haven''t had a
>   chance to contribute yet. The basics should include
>   your name, your organization, your country and city,
>   and the project you''re currently working on.
>
> Its been a couple months since then (ancient history in Rails-time),
I''m
> updating my Rails presentation, and I''d like to include some
information
> about what is being done with Rails.
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