So, you’re making a living from rails? You should consider putting up $10, or $50, or whatever, to fund a professional to spend some quality time alone with the API documentation. We’re aiming at $5,000 USD.
Here’s the paypal button. All the money received at this account will go towards paying one or more people to enhance the Ruby on Rails API. If you want some serious props, please attach your name or fire me an email and we’ll publically celebrate everyone’s contribution. (No, we haven't decided on how this will be achived, but it's likely contributors will get to vote from a handpicked selection of proven and/or skilled documenters)
Thanks in advance! (Credit cards accepted..)
Prizes!
When we reach $5,000, we will randomly hand out prizes!
So far, we have, to give away:
- 2 copies of the [Money Train](http://www.agilewebdevelopment.com/book), from [Ben Curtis](http://bencurtis.com) (building e-commerce apps in rails!)
- 2 combo-packs (pdf + dead tree) of [Beginning Ruby on Rails E-Commerce](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590597362/) by Jarkko Laine and Christian Hellsten, __signed__
(if you have anything as an incentive, fire court3nay a gmail)
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[OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO] $5 000
[OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO] $10 000
[OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO] $15 000
[OOOOOOOOOOO.......................................] $20 000
Contributors!
- $50 : Amy Hoy [slash7.com](http://slash7.com)
- $50 : Phil Hagelberg [technomancy.us](http://technomancy.us)
- $100 : Kevin Clark [glu.ttono.us](http://glu.ttono.us)
- $25 : Jacob Harris [nimblecode.com](http://nimblecode.com)
- $50 : Jamie van Dyke [fearoffish.co.uk](http://fearoffish.co.uk)
- $100 : Topfunky Corporation [topfunky.com](http://topfunky.com)
- $75 : Matthew Lyon [postsomnia.com](http://postsomnia.com)
- $100 : Josh Susser [hasmanythrough.com](http://hasmanythrough.com)
- $20 : Scott W Hill
- $50 : Damien Tanner [new-bamboo.co.uk](http://new-bamboo.co.uk)
- $50 : Corey Donohoe [atmos.org](http://atmos.org)
- $250 : Ivey & Brown, Inc. [iveyandbrown.com](http://iveyandbrown.com)
- $100 : Lars Pind [pinds.com](http://pinds.com)
- $40 : Erik Kastner [metaatem.net](http://metaatem.net)
- $80 : Joshua Sierles
- $20 : Blake Watters [thatswhatimtalkingabout.org/news/](http://thatswhatimtalkingabout.org/news/)
- $20 : Nicholas Dainty
- $200 : gravatar.com [gravatar.com](http://gravatar.com)
- $50 : Randy Souza
- $100 : Chris Wanstrath [errtheblog.com](http://errtheblog.com)
- $100 : Lucas Carlson [rufy.com](http://rufy.com)
- $125 : Thomas Moertel [blog.moertel.com](http://blog.moertel.com)
- $50 : Michael Brian Naberezny [mikenaberezny.com/](http://mikenaberezny.com/)
- $100 : Nic Williams [drnicwilliams.com](http://drnicwilliams.com)
- $50 : Samuel Smoot
- $20 : Pedro Visintin [blogs.onrails.com.ar](http://blogs.onrails.com.ar)
- $30 : Ben Curtis [bencurtis.com](http://bencurtis.com)
- $100 : PJ Hyett [pjhyett.com](http://pjhyett.com)
- $100 : Josh Knowles [joshknowles.com/](http://joshknowles.com/)
- $50 : Christ McGrath [octopod.info](http://octopod.info)
- $100 : RADsoft [radsoft.com](http://radsoft.com)
- $20 : Michael Campbell
- $15 : Michael Zatko
- $20 : Tieg Zaharia
- $33 : Michael Behan
- $20 : Steven Luscher [stevenluscherdesign.com/](http://stevenluscherdesign.com/)
- $50 : NanoRails [blog.nanorails.com/](http://blog.nanorails.com/)
- $10 : Sea Change Nutraceuticals, Inc.
- $10 : Jesse Rankin
- $100 : Steelpixel, LLC [steelpixel.com](http://steelpixel.com)
- $111 : John Weir [smokinggun.com](http://smokinggun.com)
- $31 : Blaine Cook
- $100 : Bryan Helmkamp [brynary.com](http://brynary.com)
- $100 : Fusionary Media Inc. [fusionary.com](http://fusionary.com)
- $200 : Wilson Bilkovich
- $20 : Joel Hayhurst
- $25 : Pawel Szymczykowski
- $100 : Thomas Shelton
- $65 : Assaf Arkin: labnotes/co.mments.com [co.mments.com](http://co.mments.com)
- $20 : T Dean Strelau
- $50 : rssfwd [rssfwd.com](http://rssfwd.com)
- $20 : Dave Lehman
- $50 : Tobias Luetke [leetsoft.com](http://leetsoft.com)
- $25 : Luke Melia [www.lukemelia.com/devblog/](http://www.lukemelia.com/devblog/)
- $20 : Andre Arko
- $30 : Matrix9180.org [matrix9180.org](http://matrix9180.org)
- $10 : Daniel Haran
- $50 : Ajaya Agrawalla
- $20 : William Groppe
- $50 : Hammed Malik
- $12 : Sebastien Goetz
- $30 : Stephen Waits
- $20 : Rodgers Estes
- $25 : Speedy Mac LLC [speedymac.com](http://speedymac.com)
- $20 : Michael Czepiel
- $500 : Fingertips [www.fngtps.com](http://www.fngtps.com)
- $15 : Matthew Turner
- $50 : Emrys Holding B.V.
- $250 : Darrin Wortlehock
- $100 : YUUICHIROU MASUI
- $20 : Laust Ladefoged
- $64 : Rushed Sunlight [rushedsunlight.com](http://rushedsunlight.com)
- $10 : Niko Dittmann
- $20 : Justin Mecham (observationpoint.org) [observationpoint.org](http://observationpoint.org)
- $5 : Damien Timewell
- $500 : Lauri Jutila (reforge.fi) [reforge.fi](http://reforge.fi)
- $10 : Pier-Hugues Pellerin
- $20 : Stuart Johnson
- $20 : Thomas Wright
- $50 : Bryan Liles
- $100 : Russell Tracey
- $50 : Timothy Olsen
- $50 : Axel Molina
- $25 : Ibop
- $20 : Sustainable Websites [sustainablewebsites.com](http://sustainablewebsites.com)
- $100 : Sean Hussey
- $73 : Jeremy Kleindl
- $5000 : Derek Sivers/CD Baby [cdbaby.com](http://cdbaby.com)
- $20 : Nicolas Paton
- $50 : Thomas Kersten
- $100 : Patrick Crowley/Mokolabs [mokolabs.com](http://mokolabs.com)
- $50 : William Hamilton
- $20 : David Rice [davidjrice.co.uk](http://davidjrice.co.uk)
- $35 : Nathan Witmer
- $100 : Jarkko Laine [jlaine.net](http://jlaine.net)
- $100 : Michael Genereux
- $20 : Scott Harper
- $50 : Justin Palmer [encytemedia.com](http://encytemedia.com)
- $50 : CM Gerungan
- $20 : Magnus Hjelm
- $25 : Damon Clinkscales [damonclinkscales.com](http://damonclinkscales.com)
- $50 : Shift Media Group
- $25 : Christi Balan [evil.che.lu](http://evil.che.lu)
- $50 : Jonathan Younger
- $20 : André Michael Bonkowski
- $50 : Jordan Fowler
- $30 : Will Mitchell
- $100 : Collective Idea [collectiveidea.com](http://collectiveidea.com)
- $50 : Jeff Ward, Animikii Inc. [animikii.com](http://animikii.com)
- $20 : Michael Air
- $20 : Ken Date
- $50 : KENGO Nakajima
- $75 : Scott Russell
- $150 : inVisible GmbH [invisible.ch](http://invisible.ch)
- $37 : Alain Ravet
- $50 : Scott Bauer [railsaddict.com](http://railsaddict.com)
- $10 : Matthew Parrish
- $100 : Jim Greer
- $40 : Robert Wayment
- $10 : Todd Sayre
- $20 : Doug [blog.straw-dogs.co.uk](http://blog.straw-dogs.co.uk)
- $5 : Jeremy McAnally
- $25 : Brian Anderson
- $50 : Thomas Fuchs
- $5 : Mathew Schaffer
- $100 : Boboroshi & Hankins [meticulous.com](http://meticulous.com)
- $50 : Tom Ward
- $10 : Bruno Miranda [bopia.com](http://bopia.com)
- $120 : Ryan Findley [neomind.com](http://neomind.com)
- $75 : Alex Wolfe
- $25 : Noah Stern
- $20 : Stephen Caudill
- $20 : Jason LaPier [tooshrewd.com](http://tooshrewd.com)
- $20 : Nicholas Zadrozny
- $10 : Leif Uwe Vogelsang
- $20 : Coby Randquist
- $30 : Steve Erickson
- $34 : Brian Ford
- $30 : Grant McInnes
- $42 : Re-Cog Ltd
- $100 : Needmore Designs, LLC
- $25 : Seth Fitzsimmons
- $100 : Near Time, Inc.
- $100 : RailsForum.com [railsforum.com](http://railsforum.com)
- $50 : Scott Mace
- $20 : Dennis Sutch
- $150 : Peter Styles
- $20 : Daniel Von Fange
- $250 : Paul Maritz
- $20 : Justin Kay
- $10 : Daniel Schierbeck
- $20 : Gregory Spurrier
- $30 : Artist Haus
- $100 : Daisuke Yamazaki
- $10 : S Burkhard
- $2000 : FiveRuns [fiveruns.com](http://fiveruns.com)
Total: $16182
- Mean: $104
- Median: $50
- Number of donators: 156