From: Garance A Drosehn Date: 2013-08-08T11:48:36-04:00 Subject: Re: Pure Ruby Jobs --001a11c3fe905928d504e371975f Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable One thing for "pure ruby" jobs is that few places are going to say "We need people to write pure ruby. We don't care what you're writing, just as long as it's pure ruby". They're much more likely to have some specific package in mind. Rails is one such (extremely well known) package, but you could look for others. Companies using Puppet, for instance. Or they're going to have some specific end-product in mind ("we're writing a new sys-admin tool"), and they will be more concerned with your experience with that type of project than they are in hiring a ruby expert. I'm afraid my observations don't make the search much easier. On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 1:54 AM, Feng He wrote: > Since you discuss the ruby job here, I follow this thread to say that if > you have the interest on pure ruby job, please contact with me. We are > doing the automation system like Puppet. We would also use a framework fo= r > web development, but that could be no rails. > > =E4=BA=8E 2013-1-9 14:44, David Gamba =E5=86=99=E9=81=93: > > Another field you might be interested in is QA automation. Specifically >> using watir webdriver, a web automation tool in ruby ( and other >> languages) that allows you to automate most browsers. >> It is superior to Perls mechanize because it allows testing js. >> > > > --=20 Garance Alistair Drosehn =3D drosihn@gmail.com Senior Systems Programmer Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USA --001a11c3fe905928d504e371975f Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

One thing for "pure ruby" jobs is that few place= s are going to say "We need people to write pure ruby. =C2=A0We don= 9;t care what you're writing, just as long as it's pure ruby".=

They're much more likely to have some specific package i= n mind. =C2=A0Rails is one such (extremely well known) package, but you cou= ld look for others. =C2=A0Companies using Puppet, for instance. =C2=A0Or th= ey're going to have some specific end-product in mind ("we're = writing a new sys-admin tool"), and they will be more concerned with y= our experience with that type of project than they are in hiring a ruby exp= ert.

I'm afraid my observations don't make the searc= h much easier.

On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 1:54 AM, Feng He <= fenghe@nsbeta.info<= /a>> wrote:

Since you discuss the ruby job here, I follo= w this thread to say that if you have the interest on pure ruby job, please= contact with me. We are doing the automation system like Puppet. We would = also use a framework for web development, but that could be no rails.

=E4=BA=8E 2013-1-9 14:44, David Gamba =E5=86=99=E9=81=93:

Another field you might be interested in is QA automation. Specifically
using watir webdriver, a web automation tool in ruby ( and other
languages) that allows you to automate most browsers.
It is superior to Perls mechanize because it allows testing js.

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Senior Systems Programmer
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;=C2=A0= =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0=C2=A0 Troy, NY;=C2=A0 USA

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