I'm open to any and all interesting opportunities, in Javascript, CakePHP, Ruby on Rails, or other areas. Consultancy, retainer, per-job, per-hour, etc. If it needs to be done, I'm willing to do it.
I got sucked into the whole "my previous coder fucked me over" story as well. I won't out that coder here (he hardly needs to be dragging through the mud again even by accident), but suffice it to say that EVERYONE who has used him since has had a different story ... so you can draw your own conclusions.
Sorry you got screwed. I made the mistake (LOL?) of actually demanding to be paid after a year of free coding, supporting users, and selling the software.
You likely got a prototype version of the code that was used for internal testing. The production (hosted / rails) code is much different. I never gave him an uncompiled source of the frameworked code, either ... so he basically had some shitty prototying functionality, which got wrapped into a pseudo-application.