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

We are looking for two Ruby on Rails developers to join a friendly fast expanding team based near Windsor, UK. Work Environment The job involves working on a variety of different projects in a friendly work environment with other Rails developers and designers, a IMac is provided. Job Details This job is permanent, 5 days [...]

Just had a thought. If we could use our integration specs against a rack application for external api’s Then the vendor could just update their small rack application that would fire back up to date api calls. We could then just check that we have latest rack application to test against; Also that way we [...]

So we have the power of cucumber for our integration tests; its a cool tool. But when we used to write stories; we would find that it hard to make useable steps; that would then relate to readable stories. Enter “Pickle”:git://github.com/ianwhite/pickle.git it will enable you to leverage your factories or blueprints depending on your flavor [...]

In September last year over a couple of pints we decided it would be a good idea to start a recruitment company for Ruby on Rails developers, run by… developers. I for one was getting pretty sick of the constant calls from recruiters who knew little to nothing about the technology, or about what was [...]

The credit crunch is seriously affecting the housing market, with prices dropping an average of 17.6% since this time last year. The average price of a house in the UK in February last year was £179,358, it now stands at £147,746. In February alone, house prices fell by almost 1.8%. This is a very bad [...]

About a month ago we released RubyMash which lists companies working with Ruby throughout the world on a map. The result has been really positive, and now there are 170 companies listed. If your company is not yet listed, please feel free to add it here. RubyMash is written using Merb and uses DM-Paperclip for [...]

A friend of mine, Murray, who you may also know from Last Man Standing on BBC Television recently attempted to Kitesurf solo from Antigua in the Carribean to Sint Maarten, approximately 100 miles away. There were some minor setbacks during the expedition, and he made a lucky escape! Watch the short film footage below:

And now for something a little different! Geoff Smith who has been working with us recently on in-house applications, has just released the first version of an OpenGL based spaceflight game. Written in C++ for the Mac, it is available to download from Github. Geoff says: “This is me messing around with OpenGL and its [...]

Rails comes with built in HTTP Authentication. This is great if you want to password protect your application before it is released, for example, if you are showcasing a client prototype and do not want anyone else other than the client see it. To add HTTP authentication to the entire application simply place the following [...]

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