Dynamic50 Web Design and Development, Ruby on Rails Specialists in London and Oxford, UK

In case you aren’t abreast with the news. VAT rates are changing in the UK, with an aim of increasing consumer spending in the “credit crunch”

Here are some “high-lights”

Happening Now:

The VAT rate is to be cut on 1 December from 17.5 per cent to 15 per cent until the end of 2009.

The proposed increase in [...]

The Ruby Case statement differs slightly from other languages, and for some reason it is something I always have trouble remembering the exact syntax for.

case n
when 0 then
puts ‘Nothing’
when 2, 7, 10 then
puts ‘Other Numbers’
else
puts ‘There is [...]

I hate having to configure a machine from scratch and seldom make backups of my personal data, unless extremely necessary. So I was a late adopter of Apples Time Machine for Mac.

For those of you who aren’t aware of this, it basically stores an up to date copy of everything on your mac automatically for [...]

This is a basic description of how to get up and running with merb, from creating your first application to bundling merb edge with the thor tasks.

Ruby and RubyGems

To get started you will need ruby and rubygems installed. This comes pre-installed on mac OSX. If you are using another operating system, get rubygems from here.

Make [...]

I came across the error: no such file to load — openssl when compiling ruby 1.8.7 from source. The ubuntu apt package lib-openssl-ruby is currently not up to date enough to work with ruby 1.8.7

To fix this, you need to reconfigure and reinstall your ruby source package with openssl included. You can do this with [...]

This is the start of our new Blog for Dynamic50, a web design and development company based in London, Uk.

We specialise in bespoke software development using cutting edge web development frameworks which include: Ruby on Rails and Merb.

We have a very strong team of designers, developers and project managers. No application is too small or [...]