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

Whereas a quick check on [...]

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
Objective C (iphone development) would be nice

To work firstly on a contract [...]

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 should be [...]

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 pariatur. [...]

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 least [...]

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.

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.

Ruby on Rails Job in Windsor (near London), UK, salary: 30 – 35K

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 a week on-site, there [...]

Why Would a Ruby on Rails Development Team want to start a Recruitment company?

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 needed [...]

HTTP Authentication with Rails

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 in your [...]