Working With Rails

I am a Ruby on Rails web developer / fron-end developer from Romania. I enjoy developing usable standards-compliant websites, and intend to pursue a career that allows me to make the web a better place. I have a BS in Computer Science and have written web applications professionally since 2006.

Skills:

I spend most of my time working on Ruby on Rails projects so my area of expertise would be around the following technologies to various extents:

Programming languages/frameworks: Ruby (and basic knowledge of C and Perl), Ruby on Rails, Javascript

Client side: CSS, XHTML, jQuery, Prototype, BackboneJS, UnderscoreJS, jQTouch, Zepto, HAML/SASS

RDBMS: MySQL

Operating Systems: Linux (various distributions: Ubuntu, LFS, Gentoo, Fedora), OpenBSD and OSX

Version Control: Git, Subversion

Web Services: REST, JSON, RSS

Deployment: Capistrano

Testing: RSpec, Cucumber, WebRat, FactoryGirl, Shoulda, Capybara APIs: Google Maps, Facebook, Twitter

Search Engine: Sphinx (with ThinkingSphinx)