We are a MySQL driven website using the RoR/DHTML stack to serve statistics of an area to web users in the form of ranked locations in the area, textual and graphical descriptions, and user comments. As we expand the website to more locations, the RoR application is experiencing problems with the memory usage and with the location control layer. In other words the website is currently serving one region of the US and we need to scale it to serve other parts of the US. We need someone with expertise in Ruby on Rails to consult us in scaling the system and making the application more efficient and maintainable.
## Deliverables
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
Ruby on Rails on Windows XP/Vista and Mac OSX