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Hi, Not sure where to address this question ... but I guess this is a good start. I am a freelance Rails developer - and have been developing Rails apps professionally for about a year now. I just want to get an idea of what you other freelancers charge yourselves out at. I have been charging the equivalent of about $28/hour, but get a sense that I could/should charge a whole lot more. I am

Hello RoRsters'', I''ve just started my first project with ROR, and frankly it''s pretty amazing, there are many things that still haven''t "clicked" for me yet but essentially it''s all coming together. My first project is a basic blog application to replace a current Moveable Type based blog. I''ve managed to get the basic functionality

Just wanted to send a quick thank you to the contributers on this forum. Today, with the help of many around here, I launched ohdontforget.com! Ohdontforget.com allows US visitors to schedule sms text messages for a specific date and time, for free. Although I have officially, launched, there is still room for improvement. I used this project as a learning opportunity for Ruby on Rails and

Hi, for those of you who haven''t read: http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2006/05/08/flummoxed-by-frameworks/ ""Oh", they gush, "you should absolutely try Ruby on Rails! It''s so easy! It''s almost like writing regular English!" Which means they''re clearly on crack, because Ruby on Rails is so very different from a human-written language

I''ve been using tables to get my forms to line up. ( I have usually one column for labels, and a column for values ). Should I be using divs instead? I''ve been reading some CSS design books lately. They tend to recommend divs over tables for general page layout stuff. But, what about the forms elements? What''s the ''best practice'' in this regard?

I''ve looked for DIFF tools for OSX but haven''t found anything good yet. Tried guiffy (http://www.guiffy.com) but it''s very slow and the folder comparison doesn''t indicate a change until you drill down to the level with the difference which kinda defeats the purpose. I''m missing TortoiseSVN and the diff tool that comes with it. Any suggestions for