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

We are proud to announce the full launch of Chromaroma. Here at Dynamic50 we have been working with Mudlark on the development of Chromaroma for quite some time now. Dynamic50 took over the development work in September 2010 and several members of our team here have had the opportunity to work on it. Development was [...]

When I was creating the CarbonCalculated API (Carbon Calculation Platform) I needed to give an instance of a model its’ own validations; so in a nut shell each instance can have a completely different set of validations compared to the next one; so the question is: how do we store validations and make sure the [...]

We have just finished setting up ssl on wildcard domains for a client. We have set this up on Heroku so that you have ssl on all top level subdomains. For example: *.myapp.com demo.myapp.com hello.myapp.com secure.myapp.com This is a fairly straightforward process, however there appears to be no good documentation online on how to do [...]

Chromaroma is a game played using your Oyster card whilst travelling around London. It connects communities of people who cross paths and routes on a regular basis, and encourages people to make new journeys and use public transport in a different way by exploring new areas and potentially using different modes of public transport. Dynamic50 [...]

In the spirit of nosql, today I am going to show you how to install a Rails stack on Ubuntu using Mongodb, Nginx, Passenger, Ruby 1.9 and all nicely monitored using monit, my monitoring tool of choice (why don’t I use god I hear you ask? => monit = easy maintenance and less resource heavy). [...]

Below are instructions on how to install a multi-ruby system, Ruby on Rails and everything you need to run a basic Ruby on Rails setup. Running the RVM gem (which we show how to install) allows you to easily run multiple Ruby versions and switch seamlessly between them. First steps: – Checking your Architecture Make [...]

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We have been pretty busy recently working on carbon calculation tools (using Ruby on Rails). One we have just released is a skinnable flight carbon calculator. This can easily be added to any blog or website. To embed on to your site, go to: Flight Carbon Calculator and choose a theme and comparable. I have [...]

Rubymash has been ticking along nicely as a map of freelancers and companies working with rails throughout the world. Traffic has been fairly consistent since the site was first released. However all Rubymash offered was a directory of freelancers and companies on a map. Sticking with the on-a-map idea, we have just released a jobs [...]

Since last week I have been working on upgrading a major project from Rails 2.3.5 to Rails 3.0.0.beta and also on moving other projects to use the latest version of bundler. Getting all to work was not easy, but this gave me a chance to look into the rails initialization code in detail. Based on [...]