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Name: Kelli Shaver
Age: 28
Occupation: Web Developer
Location: Morheead, KY
What brought you to Rails Forum? I just can't turn down a good opportunity to skin PunBB.
How do you use Ruby/Ruby on Rails? I don't. I may well not. This place may inspire me to learn, who knows. I figure that even fi I don't, though, I'll still hang around in the "Other Web Stuff" forums and maybe make myself useful.

Name: Josh Catone
Age: 22
Occupation: Self employed
Location: Rhode Island
What brought you to Rails Forum? I co-own it and junk.
How do you use Ruby/Ruby on Rails? Dude, I don't even know HTML (anymore).  *shifty eyes*
Thing you most recently did: Well, I just bought a DVD burner and I am currently watching the Yankees beat the Red Sox (sweet)--let's hope this trend continues.

Name: Alistair Bush
Age: 22
Occupation: Software Developer - Web
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
What brought you to Rails Forum? vin
How do you use Ruby/ Ruby on Rails?   Well... I used ruby within a OS paper at uni last year and ive picking up rails for a photography website now.  I am planning on continuing to use rails.

Shane,

The "Setting up Rails" forum is what we're currently using for deployment questions/issues, in addition to hosting and setup. We'll split that forum up into more specific issues if demand arises

And welcome aboard!

Name: Aaron Cooke
Age: 16 years old
Occupation: Looking!
Location: South East England
What brought you to Rails Forum? Josh's post on GFXContests
How do you use Ruby/Ruby on Rails? I don't yet but I have my plans!
Apart from being a part time lazy son of a gun, what else do you do? Web Design, BMX, Dream of having a better computer!

Name: Brandon
Age: 25
Occupation: Business owner
Location: LaGrange, GA (USA)
What brought you to Rails Forum? Link from SitePoint
How do you use Ruby/Ruby on Rails? Right now I am trying to learn so that I will better manage the software projects we're currently working on. I have a programmer that's developing for me, but having an understanding about the language and framework is neccessary for what I am doing as well.

Site looks great - I've been searching for a good Rails community. Hopefully membership will pick up and we can get some good discussions going!

Name: Ryan Bates
Age: 22
Occupation: Web Developer for my dad's company
Location: Southern Oregon
What brought you to Rails Forum? Some blog post I think.
How do you use Ruby/Ruby on Rails? I created a kiosk application just to test out the waters. I loved it so much that I am now building an administration system to handle our in-office invoicing. I also hope to rebuild the main site sometime with it (currently in PHP and a nightmare to maintain due to so much duplicate code).
Words of advice: If you want to seriously get into Rails/Ruby, get the Pragmatic Programmer books. They are worth the investment (get the 2nd edition of the Rails book, although it's currently in beta). Also, if you are familiar with other languages, don't be put off by Ruby's strange syntax. When I first started looking into Rails, I gave up partly because the syntax was so different from what I was used to (C and PHP). But, the more I work with it, the more I love it. It is much more powerful than I initially thought,

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Name: Evan Weaver
Age:  20's
Occupation:  Biology researcher
Location:  Near Philadelphia
What brought you to Rails Forum? http://del.icio.us
Background:  MS in Computer Science; see my website for a bit more.
How do you use Ruby/Rails?  I use Ruby and Ruby on Rails in the bioinformatics and social networking domains (not necessarily both at once).

Glad I could snag this username before anyone else.

Name: Bill Bengtson
Age: 35
Occupation Web Developer... rookie
What brought you to Rails Forum? I already forget... it wasn't someone directly... either a link or a search.
Background: I originally have an Associate Degree in Computer Networking, did a job at an ISP for Tech Support, then went on to a Help Desk job for the Corporation that I currently work for. After 2 1/2 hellish years of support work, I finally got out of that & went into our Web Department as a "Content" guy... being responsible for the content on our sites... but not doing any development work. But now I have begun to do development such as xhtml, css & jsp some... After we created our corporate sites with Ruby on Rails & the guy who lead that charge left for a better job opportunity... I was given the chance to become responsible for the 2 sites that are on RoR. So I might be in a little over my head, but I'm going for it... I've left the Networking behind & I'm pursuing my life as a Web Developer now.
When not "playing" on the computer... I'm an avid motorcycle fan... dirt bikes & sport bikes. Depending on the individual day, I'm either a computer geek that likes to ride bikes, or a dirt biker who likes to play on computers...
How do you use Ruby/Rails? Currently supporting 2 existing Corporate RoR sites... as I develop my skills, I hope to start developing these sites further then they are. Also, my personal site is a RoR site as well.