How can you find good Ruby On Rails developers offshore?

Interesting:

It’s quite likely that you’ve heard your share of horror stories about how offshore vendors work (or don’t) – the false promises, the inflated billing, the missed deadlines, the poor communication and, to add insult to injury, all the defects that crop up. I’m also sure you realise that just like any marketplace, there are vendors that Do The Right Thing – it’s just that they’re in the minority and it’s hard for them to stand out.

As a startup, here are the things that you probably care about:
A Minimum Viable Product that allows you to go to market quickly

The ability to iteratively add features and pivot as feedback comes in

Making sure your code is well tested, so that point (2) does not break everything in point (1)

A transition plan, so that you can ramp up your own team as you get to be big enough

Most offshore vendors only focus on getting the first part right.
Most of our clients that are successfully outsourcing work have learned how to identify the right vendors over a period of years, often getting burned badly at the start. If you’re a startup and are looking to offshore work, you don’t have the luxury of learning by failing. This article distills what we’ve learned ourselves and from our clients about working offshore and working with offshore firms into a fairly simple set of guidelines. With some luck, this guide should allow you to zero in on the small offshore companies that are truly agile, passionate about good engineering and eager to see their clients succeed.

The bottom line is this – going offshore is inherently less effective than having a co-located team, especially in the context of agile projects. The only reason you’d offshore work is either because you have budgetary constraints, or you’re unable to hire talent that meets your standards locally. What you want is a vendor who understands this and is actively working to mitigate the overhead introduced by having distributed teams while also having an engineering team that matches or exceeds anything that you’d find locally.

hat tip Tayrn East