Birdpie Launched on Rails 3.0

We have just released Birdpie, a small twitter application for storing and managing the urls that you tweet. Birdpie utilises Twitter auth in order to simplify the sign up process and is Dynamic50′s first experimentation with Rails 3.0 pre.Once a user is signed up, Birdpie fetches all previous bookmarks (or as many allowed by Twitter). [...]

3D Secure Transactions using SagePay Gateway and ActiveMerchant Plugin

Introduction What is 3D secure? 3D Secure is a latest initiative for fraud prevention launched by Visa and MasterCard. 3D Secure adds additional password authentication step to complete the online transactions. A detailed introduction is available at http://www.sagepay.com/developers/industry_knowledge/3d_secure.asp. This tutorial is a guide to set up a Ruby on Rails test environment for 3D Secure [...]

How we used Amazon Cloudfront as a CDN with Rails assets

Amazon Cloudfront is a great way of serving your assets for your site from localised buckets. Firstly you need to set up a new distribution from your amazon CloudFront console here. Associate your distribution with a current bucket, or alternatively with a new bucket name, but if you do this you will need to create [...]

Full time Ruby on Rails Developer (Social Networking) £30,000 – £40,000

Our client is looking for an experienced Ruby on Rails developer with at least 2 years of commercial experience. The job is working in beautiful surroundings full-time and on-site in Maidstone, Kent; within easy commuting distance of London. The successful applicant will be responsible for new feature development and maintenance of the current codebase, along [...]

Rate The Landlord is updated and re-released!

Rate the Landlord (http://www.ratethelandlord.com) is a project we have been working on at Dynamic50 in house. Renting property is always a minefield, you just don’t know what you are really getting until you move in. Rate the Landlord gives users the ability to see the property before they move in, find out more about the [...]

Full time Ruby on Rails developer required (London) £32,000 – £35,000

Our client is looking for a motivated Ruby on Rails developer who has at least 2 years commercial experience. The right candidate will be a skilled coder who has a good eye for design and is able to see things through the eyes of a potential user. Based in London, the client operates in the [...]

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 [...]