Advice on finding a Ruby on Rails developer and/or an outsourced company

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To all,

Looking for advice on how to find a developer or outsourced company that is experienced in Ruby on Rails to take a current software program built on Access/visual basic and Crystal Reports to the web using the RoR framework.

I am a business person and have no idea on how to find the right person/people to work with, what questions to ask so that I know they have the right experience and what should be paid (this product is currently being boot-strapped - but I fully understand the consequences of cheap, inexperienced development).

Lastly, is it possible to find a good programmer and designer in one or is always better to use two different people?

Your advice is appreciated! Damien.

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You might want to check out the freelancers listed on http://www.workingwithrails.com/. For companies, try http://www.railsdevelopment.com/.

I'm biased, as the company I employed by works on several open source projects, but looking at the reputation of a developer or companies OSS work is one way to get a feeling of their work.

Cheers, Walter Katipo Communications, Ltd. (http://katipo.co.nz) Kete Project Lead (http://kete.net.nz) http://twitter.com/wtem

P.S. - contact me offlist if you want to talk to me about your project.