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As a UK based freelance developer I was wondering what approach it is the most used when it's time to get paid.<p>The options seems to be:<p>1) Open a US bank account<p>2) Get paid via wire transfer<p>3) Use Paypal or similar<p>Number 1 is probably the best options for the clients but potentially hard to manage. Number 2 seems to be the best option but it can be a bit of a hassle to the clients (and also a little bit costly). Number 3 seems pretty straightforward but it's definitely the easiest option but also the most expensive.<p>I was thinking also in maybe being able to open an account in US dollars in the UK and have clients transfer the payment to this account.<p>Anyone can help out?<p>Thanks

I have a need to build an app (Ruby) that allows the user to select one or more patterns and in case those patterns are matched to proceed and complete a set of actions.

While doing my research I've discovered the new (to me) field of rules based systems and have spent some time reading about it and it seems exactly the kind of functionality I need.

The app will be integrated with different web services and would allow rules like these one:

When Highrise contact is added and Zendesk ticket is created do add email to database

I had two ideas to build this. The first is to build some kind os DSL to be able to specify the rule conditions and build them on the fly with the user input.

The second one is to build some rule classes each one having a pattern/matcher and action methods. The pattern would evaluate the expression and return true or false and the action would be executed if the match is positive.

The rules will then need to be persisted and then evaluated periodically.

Can anyone shed some light on this design or point somewhere where I can get more information on this?

Thanks