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

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]