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How long would that take?

• megamark16 15y ago
  Well, you're not going to be a master after a week long crash course, but I bet with a lot of studying and reading, and a good tutor to answer questions and walk you through tricky parts of the code you could get to the point where you could at least read the existing code and grasp what it is doing after a week or two. From there it's just a matter of digging in and trying to solve bugs and fix stuff. The best way to learn is to start getting stuff done. Once you can read the code you can start making changes and seeing what happens. You'll break stuff, that's OK as long as you're not making changes on the production server. You should have a local copy of the code on your computer that you can play around with without fear of screwing things up royally. I'm not a Ruby on Rails hacker, I'm a Django/Python guy, but I'm sure there are plenty of good guides to Ruby on Rails out there that could get you started.
  • LUTOPiA 15y ago
    That's good advice for long term, but i need to find someone reliable right away and i don't know were to look. I have tried sites like vworker.com and the coders there, so far, have been very flaky. I don't have time for that, it's an emergency situation. Thank you for the advice.
    • keefe 15y ago
      what is your runway? if you've got only 20 users I don't think you can count on this to pay the bills if you don't have months of runway ahead of you and that you should get some work and then find someone to have a long term relationship with.
      • LUTOPiA 15y ago
        I have 20 players right now, but they are personal friends and family that are helping me alpha test. I haven't even tried to make it go viral and won't until it works decently.