As many of you know, I've been increasingly active in the Rails community in the last year. Working on projects like the Rails Guides, This Week in Edge Rails, the Rails 2.2 Release Notes, and the official continuous integration server for Rails have thrown me into contact with the Rails core team and other prominent folks in the Rails community. A few of us have gotten to talking, and discovered that we have similar concerns about Rails and the way it gets used in the real world.

As a result, I'm happy to announce the launch of ActionRails, a new consulting firm jointly owned by Pratik Naik, Michael "Koz" Koziarski, and myself. We're not trying to be another group of developers who bang out Rails applications from start to finish (though any of us will be happy to talk to you individually about such projects). Rather, we're interested in helping customers complete successful Rails deployments and helping existing teams improve their Rails skills.

ActionRails is already working for a few select clients, helping them stay on top of the Rails universe, reviewing code, offering course corrections, and evaluating application architecture (among other things). You can hop over to our site for more information, or just drop me a line and I'll be glad to chat about what we can do for your team.