Hi Anthony,-<br><br>the incoherency of the recruiter's request aside, can you not actually code both? If so, why not apply and sort it out with the company itself? <br><br>This kind of incident used to irk me as well, now I've started dabbling heavily in front-end development because it is good for prototyping purposes. So I can actually understand where the companies are coming from.<br>
<br>It is annoying they don't understand that as a general rule you get less quality with more diversification of skill - however the Rails community has a strong culture of paying much attention to the look and feel of interfaces, which implies being front-end proficient. (I guess it's all that 37signals legacy). So in this particular case it might not be as bad as when they ask:<br>
<br>"PHP, Ruby on Rails, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, and oh, some bit of Cobol and Linux sys-admin would be lovely thanks".<br><br>/ Vahagn<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Anthony Green <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Anthony.Green@bbc.co.uk">Anthony.Green@bbc.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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I just had a phone conversation with a recruiter who was asking for a<br>
designer/front end coder do be a Ruby on Rails developer for a start up in<br>
Oxford.<br>
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I thought I'd left that nonsense behind with PHP.<br>
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