Textmate issues – env: ruby: No such file or directory

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 [...]

Ruby on Rails Developer in London (£250 per day)

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 [...]

Santa Speaks!

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 [...]

Why do we write Lorem Ipsum Dolor

The infamous placeholder paragraph: “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla [...]

Full Time Ruby on Rails Developer in London required – £30k

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 [...]

Ruby on Rails Freelancers Required – £250 a day

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.

Installing Mono 2.4 on Ubuntu 8.10 and compiling from source

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 [...]

Using YSlow, Apache and Passenger to make your site Faster – Stage 1 Expiries

Stage 1. Adding an Expires header to Static Pages with Apache and Phusion Passenger Yslow is a great tool to check how your site compares on several factors relating to speed. I ran a check on Dynamic50.com and I got 76%. I want 100%, so lets get started! Firstly YSlow recommends I add an expires [...]

Rails Freelancers Required with Python experience

We are looking for an established Ruby on Rails freelancer with at least 2 years previous commercial experience in Python (and Django). Please contact us at hello@ruby50.com or via our website: Ruby50.com for more information on the role.

Gem to interact with the Amee Project Api

What is the Amee Project? In a nut shell its a project to measure the “Carbon Footprint” of everything on Earth. Amee If you fancy interacting with the service then you might want to look at d50s Gem.