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We bring your plans to life through well crafted and maintained software built in Ruby on Rails and Javascript with a transparent, agile process.
We bring your plans to life through well crafted and maintained software built in Ruby on Rails and Javascript with a transparent, agile process.
We'll help you bring your ideas into a demonstrable and clickable reality.
Design and development of your Ruby on Rails application.
Ongoing code maintenance for your Ruby on Rails application.
24/7 dedicated Ruby on Rails Operations as a Service for your Rails application, keeping it online and secure.
View Case Study"The blueprint that has been developed leaves me with confidence to expand with new features, that will respect many of the lessons learned during wireframing and prototyping with reinteractive."
Tim Koopmans - CTO & Founder, Flood IO
View case study"The difference with reinteractive is the talent pool - Mikel has captured the best talent in the country. The consultants are top resources; self motivated, passionate and upfront."
Simon Farrell - CTO, RedBalloon
View case study“When we cut across to OpsCare and completed the migration, I was extremely pleased and surprised at how smooth it went. The OpsCare model and the work that has gone into building and developing it is technically very impressive.”
John Bishop – Director, PetRescue
If you are not completely happy with the result of your bespoke development project when we are done, we will give you $10,000 worth of our development time, at no charge, to make it right.
Our OpsCare and CodeCare services also have their own simple one month refund and guarantee which you can read in our Terms of Use.
We appreciate that a lot of learning comes from experience so we like to give back and share our knowledge with Ruby on Rails Installfest and Development Hub, to help our community grow.
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A few days ago a prospective client asked "Why do you use Ruby on Rails?" and I told them a simple answer. Profitability and Productivity.
Software has been around for more than fifty years and there have been a lot of learnings generated in how to best manage the process of building software. Before the internet it was quite common for a large software project to be initiated, worked on and completed without more than a handful of people knowing what was going on. This lack of transparency led to many dissatisfied stakeholders and sometimes even the software being taken to the trash upon delivery. How do modern software practices avoid the pitfalls of black box software development?
At reinteractive we use Pivotal Tracker to get all of the features translated into User Stories that are clear for the developer to implement. Once a User Story is completed by the developer the User Story must be accepted by the Product Owner. The Product Owner is the person who decides what the features should and should not do and has ultimate authority. If the Product Owner rejects the developers work Pivotal Tracker will notify the developer that the User Story is reopened and the developer will then attack the User Story again. It is very important for the User Stories to be accepted or rejected quickly because a developer will only hold a complete understanding of the code for a short amount of time.
We’ve recently run usability studies on an application for a financial product where, after a user inputs a couple of screens worth of data, a tailored product solution appears. We had a nice prototype, and all was well except for one thing…
During the usability study, we received the following feedback: the recommendation arrived too fast. Wait, what? Yes, the results arrived too quickly after the user hit send, which made people think that it wasn’t real. Some of the user feedback was “there’s no way it could’ve looked at my data in such short amount of time…”, “I don’t think this is real, because it hasn’t spent any time thinking about it…”, “I wouldn’t trust this product, it made me fill in screens of data but then ignored it all when giving me the recommendation…”, or, in some cases, people were expecting to continue filling in more data and didn’t entirely believe that the screen they were looking at was the solution and not just another screen requiring more information.
Note: This post is intended as a supplement to WTF Just Happened? A Quick Tour of Your First Rails App.
In a previous article, Gems and Bundler, I described Rails as a gem for building web applications. To be totally correct, Rails is more accurately described as a gem of gems.
Note: This post is intended as a supplement to WTF Just Happened? A Quick Tour of Your First Rails App.
A Ruby gem is a self-contained piece of code that performs a single piece of functionality. You can find gems for pretty much anything you could ever want; from extracting data into CSV format to integrating with Google analytics and everything in between! In fact, Rails itself is a gem. It is a gem for building web applications. See Rails: A Gem of Gems for more detail.
