On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 1:33 AM, Stephen Huey <stephenhuey@...> wrote:

> So, I was just wondering if any of you have any suggestions for how to
transition into Rails development. As I've pointed out, I've never changed
programming ecosystems before, and aside from scouring Craigslist and Guru.com,
I'm not sure of any better ways to go about it (aside from being open to
relocation).

Stephen,

here are a few other sites as well:

http://jobs.rubynow.com/
http://jobs.37signals.com/
http://lists.austinonrails.org/pipermail/jobs-austinonrails.org/
(austin jobs list)

in terms of transitioning....like you said maybe take less pay at
first...team up with someone who has an idea but not much money and
build something, create a useful site/app and launch it if you have
some ideas of your own, share some code that you write up on an open
source site like http://github.com/ , find an open source project that
you are interested in and contribute patches, and finally...attend
user group meetings, participate in mailing lists and generally just
network within the Ruby community. It really helps to get to know
people and have them know you and what you are interested in and
capable of.

Best,
-damon
Austin On Rails
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