Jon Leighton: Rails Codesmith

Ruby on Rails freelance developer in Oxford, near London

I'm a Ruby on Rails expert who has been developing with the framework since 2005, leaving a string of happy clients in my wake. I have a strong theoretical background, having studied Computer Science at St Anne's College, Oxford

What people say

• “exceptionally bright and enthusiastic”
• “writes beautiful, effective and very maintainable code”
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Why hire me?

• I’m a Ruby on Rails core team member, so you can be sure I know the framework inside out. I have also worked on numerous other open-source projects.
• I am passionate about software quality, which is why I take great care to write clean, well-structured code and use test-driven development extensively
• I’m a great all-rounder. I enjoy working out how best to structure complex business logic on the back end of an application, but also relish the challenge of implementing highly polished user interfaces in the browser.

Articles

• 9 January 2012: Hashes and encapsulation
• 3 January 2012: Poltergeist: A PhantomJS driver for Capybara
• 30 August 2011: initialize_clone, initialize_dup and initialize_copy in Ruby

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