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Name: Mihai Anca
Age: 17 years old
Occupation: Computer Science High School Student
Location: Bucharest, Romania
What brought you to Rails Forum? Found interesting responses, tutorials.
How do you use Ruby/Ruby on Rails?  I consider myself a bit more then a beginner. I use it for personal projects as well as starting into freelancing.

Name: Norm Scherer

Age: Old enough that my first Unix system was a pdp-11 running PWB if you have ever heard of that.  My first computer language was FORTRAN IV and my first computer was a Z80/CPM machine.

Occupation: Retired at present

Location:  Anywhere in the US or Canada (except Hawaii).  I live and travel in a motorhome and can be found most anyplace that the climate is reasonable.  I am now in California and last summer I spent in Alaska.

What brought you to the ROR Forum: I was just looking for information on ROR and this seemed a good spot.

How do you use ROR:  I am presently writing a ROR application for the management of campgrounds.  It is called Open-Campground and is available on Ruby Forge.  It has had some beta releases and should be ready for production use within the next month or so.  It is released under the GPL

Name: Bule
Age: 25
Occupation: Delphi Developer
Location: Croatia
What brought you to Rails Forum: Google.
How do you use Ruby/Ruby on Rails: I see it as a very cool and fresh platform ideal for a medium web app I need to develop in less than a month time frame. I've never used Ruby nor Rails, so this shall be a nice quest/experience for me. With your help if I'm stuck, I hope.

Rails for PHP Developers http://www.pragprog.com/titles/ndphpr is probably a good bet.

Age: 28
Occupation: Web Application Developer
Location: Sydney
To Rails Forum: Google link looking for a programming solution
Use Rails for: Our work develops RoR projects and a goodness of my heart project I ported from PHP when I was first learning RoR.

Rails rocks.

Name: Housni Y
Age: 27 years old
Occupation: Web Developer/Linux Admin (freelancing at the moment, though)
Location: Sri Lanka
What brought you to Rails Forum? I think it was rynab's railscasts.com. I don't remember
How do you use Ruby/Ruby on Rails? I just started learning this month (May 2008) but I might work on a small freelance project for it real soon. I was heavily involved with developing in PHP for the last 5 years or so but I haven't touched it since the end of last year. Been working heavily with Linux for the last two years or so. Looking forward to becoming a ROR freak

Name: Clarence Hill
Age: 23 years old
Occupation: Web Developer/Marketing
Location: ShenZhen, China
What brought you to Rails Forum?  google.
How do you use Ruby/Ruby on Rails? Internal organization/productivity-type apps.

Figured I haven't done this yet, so here it goes..

Name: andy thompson
Age: 15
Occupation: high school student
Location: Boston, MASS
What brought you to Rails Forum? Interest in Rails, looking for a collective group to help me. Google search.
How do you use Ruby/Ruby on Rails? learning OOP, potiental future, fun, shrug

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Name: Paul Lancaster
Age: 28
Occupation: Full time parent, part time t-shirt entrepreneur
Location: NB Canada, hopefully Ottawa soon enough
What brought me to Rails Forum: Google search for Ruby on Rails forums.
How do you use Ruby/Ruby on Rails: I don't yet, but I have some ideas that I can't accomplish without learning something new. So this is my something new.

Name:        Oroku Saki
Age:        25
Occupation:    Web Developer
Location:    Jupiter, Florida
Website:    South Florida Web Development Company

I'm a web developer. Most of my programming is done on an API built on Java utilizing Velocity (something far beyond what most people on here will ever have the opportunity to use).

I'm a huge fan of MVC architecture - not for creating sites, or even applications that end users will see, but as a way to create my own higher level application data API.

I used to be a huge fan of CodeIgniter. It's like Rails for PHP minus:

[lots of garbage, expensive hosting, cocky attitudes spawned by low egos and frustration, lots of restrictions]

Now I hate PHP so much that I can't even look at CodeIgniter. So I've moved on to better things. My new conquest was to find a new language - one that is object oriented, runs much quicker, and is much cleaner to read.

I finally decided on Python. I did a great deal of research and learned that Python is about 4 times faster than Ruby, 8 times faster than PHP, and nearly as fast as Java at about half the speed as C. I've already dived into Python, but for the sake of keeping my mind open, I wanted to hear some rants first. Why should I abandon Python for Ruby (Not Rails, but Ruby itself because Django blows Rails out of the water), and I know that this is a great place to find Ruby evangelists.