Ruby on Rails Development

I'm looking a ruby on rails developer, & possible two, to add some functionality into our existing site. We want to screen scrape and use the eBay API to extract various data and place this in a data model which will have some relationships with our existing site. We then want a web 2.0 front end that allows users to search the data and generate graphs based upon trends and values. We already have: 1. Initial code to scrape 2 sites, however this is a rake task & the methodology needs to be reviewed. 2. Initial data model, however this needs to be reviewed 3. Development, test, & production linux based Ruby on Rails servers, code managed by subversion. 4. An operational resources that can configure applications, gems, & plugins on our environment. If things turn out well we look to form a regular relationship. ## Deliverables We’d like to split the deliverables into following milestones [login to view URL] site [estimated time 2 weeks a. Beta data model defined b. Importing of 2 datasets [ebay + one other] c. Simple interface to allow searching across data d. Simple graph of information [we will specify this in detail] 2. Collection [estimated time 2 weeks] a. Importing of 10 datasets [scraped from sites] b. Review of data model to scale over time based on data collection trends 3. Presentation [estimate time 2 weeks] a. Additional graphing b. Alerts ??" generate email alerts We would expect at 80% unit, functional, & integration test coverage of the code. We may also require an NDA to be signed before engagement Plus the standard RentACoder terms below. 1) Complete and fully-functional working program(s) in executable form as well as complete source code of all work done. 2) Deliverables must be in ready-to-run condition, as follows (depending on the nature of the deliverables): a) For web sites or other server-side deliverables intended to only ever exist in one place in the Buyer's environment--Deliverables must be installed by the Seller in ready-to-run condition in the Buyer's environment. b) For all others including desktop software or software the buyer intends to distribute: A software installation package that will install the software in ready-to-run condition on the platform(s) specified in this bid request. 3) All deliverables will be considered "work made for hire" under U.S. Copyright law. Buyer will receive exclusive and complete copyrights to all work purchased. (No GPL, GNU, 3rd party components, etc. unless all copyright ramifications are explained AND AGREED TO by the buyer on the site per the coder's Seller Legal Agreement). ## Platform Nginx Mongrel Ruby on Rails MySQL Linux Browser compatibility - IE version 6+