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1. What brings you to web development? What's your goal? What's your passion? What wakes you up in the middle of the night?

2. Tell me about common themes you run into working in the UI. How did you address them?

   • UX/Design changes?
   • What’s difficult, what’s fun?
   • Localization

3. What do you do to keep up to date with technology (blogs, conferences, etc)?

   • What blogs do you follow?
   • If you could master one technology this year, what would it be?

IvoBetke

Originally published in June 2008

When hiring Ruby on Rails programmers, knowing the right questions to ask during an interview was a real challenge for me at first. In 30 minutes or less, it's difficult to get a solid read on a candidate's skill set without looking at code they've previously written. And in the corporate/enterprise world, I often don't have access to their previous work.

To ensure we hired competent ruby developers at my last job, I created a list of 15 ruby questions -- a ruby measuring stick if you will -- to select the cream of the crop that walked through our doors.

What to expect

Candidates will typically give you a range of responses based on their experience and personality. So it's up to you to decide the correctness of their answer.