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

Ugh. If there is one task that will kill my motivation for the day, it’s rounding boxes with CSS. Yes, in the right context they do give a design an edge, but that doesn’t mean that they aren’t a real pain to do! The subject has really been done to death by now- there are [...]

Hello again. This week I’ve been getting to grips with Sass and seeing what I could do with it. Sass (a rather charming acronym of Syntactically Awesome StyleSheets) is a component of the Haml plugin for Ruby. Where Haml deals with the markup of HTML, Sass deals with the markup of CSS. It describes itself [...]

Hello there! My name is Simon and I’ve just recently joined Dynamic50 as the resident front-end man. As part of the initial work, I needed to generate a bunch of generic, good looking reusable interface elements, and that of course involves the dreaded HTML form. Now, forms are notoriously difficult to style well consistently across [...]

One of the issues that keeps on rearing its ugly head, and I have never got round to fixing is the following error locally on Textmate: env: ruby: No such file or directory Well today I decided to put an end to it! Textmate assumes (wrongly in my case) that Ruby is located at: /usr/local/bin/ruby [...]

Our client is looking for a Ruby on Rails developer with the following: Testing Behaviour driven development Experience using software patterns E-commerce / Active Merchant At least 2 years COMMERCIAL rails experience At least 4 years experience using MVC based web frameworks At least 8 years experience building websites. JQuery Mac OSX JSON Web services [...]

Reevoo is a review website written predominantly in Ruby on Rails. They are based in London, and have opened up their talking santa to the world here. Anyone can go to the site and type in something for Santa to say, and Santa will speak out loud in the office. I think the next step [...]

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Our client is looking for a full time Ruby on Rails developer to work in their London offices. Working within a team of rails developers, the position is in a bioinformatics group of a national agency who have responsibilities for the nation’s health, particularly infectious disease. We are looking for a rails developer with at [...]

Our client based in Kings Cross, London requires two experienced Ruby on Rails freelancers to work on a 3 month project. This project is based on-site within their office, and is a 5 day a week project. This is for immediate start. If interested, please contact hello@ruby50.com for more information.

We recently had to delve into the world of .NET, which meant using Mono on Ubuntu. Ubuntu 8.10 ships with mono 1.9.x whereas we needed the most up to date version, mono version 2.4 These are the instructions on how we installed mono 2.4 and its pre-requisites on a slicehost slice running Ubuntu 8.10 Firstly [...]