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We work hard to make reinteractive a great place to work. On average our developers stay with us well and truly beyond the industry standards - the accepted average is around 2 years, whereas at reinteractive we see many staff staying four, five, or even ten years.

Ruby on Rails or Rails, is a server side web application framework written in Ruby. Ruby on Rails' emergence in 2005 greatly influenced web app development and some of the biggest brands use it: AirBnB, GitHub, Bloomberg, Shopify, Crunchbase and Dribble. Over the past two decades, RoR has taken countless companies to millions of users and billions in market valuations.

GKR Karate International is an international network of karate dojos spanning Australia, New Zealand, UK and now the US. Founded in the mid 80’s, GKR has over 30,000 members with more than 2,500 classes running each week between 4 countries. They cater to a large student community which is active on socials.

Reinteractive has built a custom web app on Heroku connected to GKR’s Salesforce org through Heroku Connect to perfectly meet GKR’s needs.

For its entire existence, reinteractive has specialised in Ruby on Rails, and continues to this day to use Rails as its sole software framework (with the exception of frontend frameworks, particularly for mobile applications). And it is for good reason that we have chosen to stay with Rails, some of which I will go over below. It is the programming language that works just as well for big enterprise applications, as well as smaller startups and everything in between. Many of the applications you use every day are using Ruby on Rails for part or all of their technology stack. It is a versatile, powerful framework, and due to the strict way in which it is implemented, great for working with teams. reinteractive continues to provide full time Ruby on Rails development services, as well as ongoing maintenance services for Rails applications.

Chief amongst these is that it is often easy for a number of developers to work on a single application without tripping over each other, and because it is a very standardised framework, it is easy for a new developer to pick up a correctly written Rails application and be up and running on it, ready to write new code. Rails is what we call an opinionated framework. This means that it forces developers to write code in a predetermined pattern. This makes it easy for another developer to understand what is happening in that code reasonably quickly.