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 [...]

****AMENDED TIMES********************* The date of this course has been moved to 16th – 17th April, details and booking is available at http://rubyonrailstraining.eventbrite.com/ ****************************************** Following on from our last post and the feedback we received, we have decided to move the Rails training course to run over a weekend rather than during the week. We have [...]

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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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 [...]

Here’s a quick howto guide on installing Ruby 1.9.1, Rubygems 1.3.5 and dependencies on Ubuntu. The apt-sources version of Ruby is not the latest version, as such it is better to compile everything from source. First make sure your package sources are up to date and you have build essential and zlib1g-dev installed: sudo apt-get [...]

Recently we have been having problems with DNS not resolving with our companies broadband provider. I looked at some open source DNS services, the best one being OpenDNS, but despite them having a couple of boxes in Amsterdam the lookups are still somewhat slow. So the solution? Create our own DNS server :-) This is [...]

Recently I have been moving a lot of our old repositories into our local gitosis from github. There seems to be no quick an easy solution for moving all of the remote branches across too, so this is how I am currently doing this. Below are the commands I have been using to do this: [...]

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is a process that can be explained in two parts: relevance and quality. Relevance is determined by onsite factors such as content and image descriptions etc. and quality is determined by links. Returning relevant results is the main goal of a search engines. This is why you must get your onsite [...]