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[northernladuk]

Woohoo an actual Ruby Dev,

But you wouldn't have known if you met him. He appears fairly normal and an alround decent fella.

[TheCyclingProgrammer]

Probably most of them moved to Python & Go, and Ruby On Railers moved to Elixir?

I don’t think many Rails devs have moved on to Elixir - it looks interesting but not if you actually want to find work. It’s pretty niche.

A lot of Rails devs have more likely moved on to “full stack” and now they have to write JavaScript for a living. I don’t envy them. React, and all that kind of thing. The front end ecosystem is a mess. Lots of work in that space though.

Go seems to be getting some traction commercially too.

[BigDataPro]

Woohoo an actual Ruby Dev, this makes me happy as there don't seem to be many about these days. I myself am in the Testing space and Ruby is my main language, people tend to scoff a bit when they hear that because it's not Java

Probably most of them moved to Python & Go, and Ruby On Railers moved to Elixir?

[The Spartan]

I'm a very experienced Ruby dev. I'm not based where you're looking but generally work remotely anyway. Happy to discuss if you want to send me a PM.

Woohoo an actual Ruby Dev, this makes me happy as there don't seem to be many about these days. I myself am in the Testing space and Ruby is my main language, people tend to scoff a bit when they hear that because it's not Java

[Lance]

(Emphasis mine).

There's the problem. If you're too cheap to pay for an advert, I don't even want to think about what your rate might be like.

contractors aren't good at recruiting people.

They often have a massive chip on their shoulder about agents.
And when they find it hard to find anyone it's because they "have such unique skills". It reinforces their own bias about their amazing skillz.

[billybiro]

What are good places / Website for direct contracts currently? I'm looking for a Manchester / Rochdale area Ruby dev, but dont want agencies and the initial project is only small, but may lead to more so dont want to pay for an advert.

(Emphasis mine).

There's the problem. If you're too cheap to pay for an advert, I don't even want to think about what your rate might be like.

[PerfectStorm]

How much is it to put something on Jobserve, or a free site that'll be gobbled up by one of the aggregators?

Pay nothing and you'll get a quantity of rubbish, though

[cannon999]

Our consultacy is currently looking to take on new clients. I have dropped you a private message.

[doconline]

Freelancers.net?

Hi,

You could check out Freelancers.net. Not sure what the quality is like but used to be very good. Can search for a skill then go through and look at locations. Better than Upwork / People Per Hour, but will still get some offshore people on there too.

[TheCyclingProgrammer]

I'm a very experienced Ruby dev. I'm not based where you're looking but generally work remotely anyway. Happy to discuss if you want to send me a PM.

[ladymuck]

Depending on whether you want unmask yourself, you could share the link to you LI post here and we can share it on? I don't have any Devs in my network but I know people who do...

[scooby]

Better still...
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobshawadiwadi

Plenty quickness, much cheapness not wanted!

[northernladuk]

https://www.linkedin.com/groups/2381331/

Better still...
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobshawadiwadi

[LondonManc]

What are good places / Website for direct contracts currently? I'm looking for a Manchester / Rochdale area Ruby dev, but dont want agencies and the initial project is only small, but may lead to more so dont want to pay for an advert.

https://www.linkedin.com/groups/2381331/

[Lance]

Job Centre????

Seriously though. If you don't have the contacts already, then you're about to find out why agencies exist. They're not just parasitic organisations. They do actually find people.
The entire industry for search and selection of people has grown around the people who know how to do it.

So if your contacts are crap, and you are desperate to not use a professional, then cough up for LinkedIn premium and buy a subscription service to JobServe.

Or hope you get lucky.