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

A while back I wrote a blogpost on generating a sitemap for a ruby on rails app. This generator was run via a rake task. Now that loads of our apps are deployed to heroku and some have content that changes all of the time, it doesn’t make sense to have a rake task to [...]

Dynamic50 have recently run three very successful Ruby on Rails training courses. One over a weekend, one 3 day during the week and another in-house course for a company looking to transition to rails. The courses are tailored to the ability of the group and we have run several different versions now, from basic programming [...]

Below is an example of how to produce a form for an embeds_many association for mongoid and simple_form (although this will also work with the standard rails helpers). Class User include Mongoid::Document embeds_many :children, :class_name => "Child" accepts_nested_attributes_for :children, reject_if: proc { |attributes| attributes["age"].blank? } end Class Children include Mongoid::Document field :age, type: String embedded_in [...]

Richard from Dynamic50 has just released a ruby gem for the Police API available here: https://github.com/hookercookerman/oldbill. It allows you to hook into the new Police API service to find out about crime in your local area. To get started, simply register for an API key here: http://policeapi2.rkh.co.uk/api/docs/signup/ and then add the gem to your Gemfile: [...]

****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 [...]

We are holding a ruby on rails kick start training course here at Dynamic50. If you want to go from zero to hero in a short amount of time See what you will learn.

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 [...]

Most sitemap posts seem to explain the best way of doing things as running a background job that then writes / updates the sitemap.xml file. This is a bit of a problem in a predominantly read-only environment such as heroku. To solve this, we wrote a quick controller action to create the sitemap on the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]