[Rails] Introduce yourself and your project

[Rick Bradley]

* David Heinemeier Hansson (david at loudthinking.com) [041214 08:39]:
> I'm seeing a lot of new names on the list. Could we perhaps do a round 
> of introductions? That would also be a great first post, if you haven't 
> had a chance to contribute yet. The basics should include your name, 
> your organization, your country and city, and the project you're 
> currently working on.

I'm Rick Bradley, working as 1 of 4 people (2 developers - the other
developer is also on this list) at Base Systems (www.basesys.com) here
in Nashville, TN.  We're deploying a few new products for the medical
industry (Asterisk-based voice recording systems, handheld applications,
etc.) and will be converting our medical workflow system (currently
serving transcription providers) from PHP to Ruby and Rails over the
next few months.

Since our company is so small we're heavy into magnifying our
productivity.  We've looked at (best estimate) close to 100 different
frameworks in multiple languages over the past year and only Rails
appears to actually reduce the amount of work we have to do.

I'm also gradually converting my various personal toys over to using
Rails as well -- I started with the DemoApp accountomatic which is
working very well for me since porting it over to Rails.  Next is
probably my jukebox system (rdtj.sourceforge.net), which looks like it
will end up being Ruby+Madeleine+RGL+FreeBASE+Rails.

Thanks,
Rick
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