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Best Ruby Developer, How to Hire Them
I've had to interview hundreds and learned a lot of lessons. With that, here's my best advice to anyone else who wants hire a Rails developer:
Don't use Monster.com or recruitment agencies. Use your feet instead; find out where Rails developers meet each other and go there. In San Francisco it's the Ruby Meetups, in Toronto check out PubNite. WorkingWithRails.com can also be useful. If you must post to job boards, try 37 Signals and add your job posting to SimplyHired.
Look for open source contributions. Being intimate with the open source workings of the Rails community is crucial. Open Source contributions such as releasing a Rails plugin, or fixing bugs on projects like Beast, or Rails itself, demonstrates exposure to other Rails code bases.
Be wary of holes in proficiency. Rails developers should be fearless. Its reasonable to expect them to have a command of everything from database indices to cross-platform JavaScript. (Bonus points if they are handy in Photoshop and Illustrator.)
What about those who have less experience? If people follow these rules then people like myself won't ever get a chance. I've reached the limit of what I can learn in total isolation and I don't have the time to do any extra development in my spare time. I don't have a rails blog because I'm still very much learning and I don't have anything extra to add that other rails developers haven't said already.
Does someone have to become an expert in Rails before even having the opportunity to work with and learn from others? It reminds me of all the "junior developer posts" that asked for 6 months commercial experience in VB - like you can get that as a graduate. While I can see that for the ideal candidate I'd be interested in what you'd ask for for a junior developer.
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