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Working With Rails Weblog

News, features, and announcements from the Working With Rails community site.

What next for WWR?April 22 2008

The WorkingWithRails community is going from strength to strength. Our membership is growing fast and our readership is growing to. In light of this, we feel now is the time to grow even more. So, we're asking for you, dear reader, to engage with us and consider these two propositions:

1. What do you want to see on the WWR site? What's the next piece of functionality that we should build? What would make your life as a Rails developer better? What resource do you need? What would keep you coming back for more? We've got lots of ideas, but what does the community really want?

We'll give you a credit in the form of a link to your WWR profile on the site when the new function is built. Note, we just need the seed of your idea - you don't need to write a detailed spec!

There is no formal closing date, but we'd like to get cracking within a month or so. Please post your suggestions on our forums.

2) We want to a hire a skilled RoR author. Perhaps you've got a successful blog, or you've written RoR articles for books or magazines. Would you like an even wider audience for your work AND get paid for writing about something you love? If so, we want you!

For more details, see our job ad.

March Hackfest Winners AnnouncedApril 4 2008

The winner of the March 2008 Hackfest is Chris O'Sullivan. Congratulations Chris, a ticket to RailsConf2008 will be with you shortly.

Once again many thanks to O'Reilly for providing the prizes. The runners up get a variety of books and magazines.

A big thanks to all the contributors who took part.

The top prize for April is a ticket to RailsConf Europe 2008 happening 2-4 September 2008 in Berlin.

HappyCodr - Happy WWR!April 3 2008

We're delighted to announce that the HappyCodr system has been merged with WorkingWithRails.

Our good friend Theron Parlin decided recently that the very popular HappyCodr site wasn't getting the attention from him that it deserved, so he asked if we'd come up with a solution. We imported his database of Rails sites and added the ones we didn't already have to our growing list.

We also added a new "Showcase" feature to show a random selection of a dozen sites - all built with Rails and great examples of what can be achieved.

Enjoy the updates and if you want to show Theron your support, why not recommend him.

Rails Search EngineMarch 27 2008

We've just released a new version of the WorkingWithRails software. As well as some stuff that most people will find boring, like fully automated payment processing for the job board and some requested features, like a wider view to read the forum posts, it brings a great new feature to the busy Railers armory.

It's a Rails-specific Search Engine right on our home page. It's powered by Google (who else?) and it offers the ability to easily search a carefully selected, handcrafted-for-greatness collection of Ruby on Rails and Ruby websites. The list includes things like the Ruby on Rails API, other Rails documentation sites and of course the official Rails site and wiki. We're also adding some of the best Rails blogs. We're happy to add to the list, so if you've got suggestions, please do let us know.

This means that you can now get Rails info fast. For example, search for an API method without having to wade through information about other languages that just so happen to have a method with the same name. As well as the API, you might get a reference to a How-To or Blog entry about it too. All in one place.

Try it now...

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Hot prizes and top jobsMarch 10 2008

WorkingWithRails is going from strength to strength. As we do we're delighted to be rewarding Ruby On Rails stars with some great prizes for their community contributions as well as being a fabulous source of Ruby on Rails job opportunities.

Over 100 jobs in the last 30 days

Over 100 Ruby On Rails jobs have been posted on our site in the last 30 days. These are Rails specific jobs, from great employers - the quality of the ads is really high. Not only that but we're getting email after email telling us what great candidates our advertisers are finding through their ads on our site. Post a job of your own or browse the latest ads.

Forums

The forums on WorkingWithRails are growing fast and we're pleased to announce that we're now offering valuable prizes for the best contributors.

Over $1,000 of Beanstalk services are up for grabs for the top three most highly regarded forum contributors.

Every single WorkingWithRails user is elligible to win one of these fantastic prizes just for being an active member of the community.

For more information, please visit the forums homepage now.

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