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title: Welcome to Ryan McGeary as the first Shoulda contributer outside of thoughtbot!
teaser:
tags: news,web,shoulda
author: Tammer Saleh
published_on: 2008-07-28
---

I've mentioned before that being the main person with commit rights on
[Shoulda](https://github.com/thoughtbot/shoulda) has resulted in a serious
bottleneck in getting the community's contributes into trunk.  The contributions
we've been getting have all been high quality, but we needed to find someone who
consistently produced exceptional work - someone we could trust to make good
decisions about which changes were both well implemented, and good directions
for Shoulda to take.

![''](http://images.thoughtbot.com/ui/2008-7-28-rmm5.jpg)

To that end, we'd like to give a warm welcome to [Ryan
McGeary](http://ryan.mcgeary.org "rmm5") who joined the Shoulda team two weeks
ago.  Ryan shows exactly that clarity of judgement and technical expertise that
we've been looking for.

Feel free to [recommend him on working with
rails](http://workingwithrails.com/person/7397)