Famous Web Apps Built with Ruby on Rails
Ruby on Rails has become the top trend for the development of web apps in recent years. Ruby is a programming language, and Rails is a web app framework for web development in this language. Such...
View ArticleHive53 Calendly Swarm meetup on building global business from scratch
Last week our client of three years Tope Awotona, a founder of Calendly visited us to discuss future product vision and collaborate with Railsware team in our Kraków office. We took this opportunity...
View ArticleMy first 3 months at Railsware
Hi, my name is Anna. I am 25. I am a linguist and today I will tell about my first 3 months in IT company. I’ve learned a lot during those 90 days and would like to share this knowledge ...
View ArticleSmart Checklist add-on for JIRA Server released
For months we’ve been providing JIRA Cloud users with the ability to manage their Definitions of Done, ToDo’s, Acceptance Criteria’s inside JIRA issue avoiding complex sub-tasks creation with Smart...
View ArticleHow we saved $650 on Mixpanel monthly
We got acquainted with Mixpanel as a data analytics tool pretty long time ago and integrated it for few our clients. During last months we started active usage of Mixpanel integration on Railsware Labs...
View ArticleSmart Checklist – tasks organizer built-in in your JIRA
We are glad to introduce you the new version of Smart Checklist add-on for JIRA Cloud. It’s hard to believe, but the first version of our add-on has been launched on Atlassian marketplace half a year...
View ArticleUsing flowcharts to create consistent scope
In product development, original idea takes lots of transformations on it’s way to the actual implementation (writing code which works and provides desired benefit, that is). One of those is transition...
View ArticleNew offices, new chapter.
Changes all around! In 2016 we changed locations of our offices both in Kyiv and in Krakow. Railsware has developed a lot in last 5 years and for all that time we’ve felt a strong need of finding new,...
View ArticleStand-up meetings: Railsware way
Intro While I don’t think that anyone who has ever used any modification of Agile methodology would require definition of a stand-up meeting, its still needed to have some base to start from. Let’s say...
View ArticleManage Client Happiness with Regular Demos
Intro Regular Demos – is one of the most powerful instruments of managing your client’s expectations. That’s the way you can formally get acceptance of your team’s work and eliminate frustration risks...
View ArticleHow we use Slack custom emoji to poll groups quickly
Do you know how to make quick, simple pools inside your group without any specific form-based tools? Google or Wufoo survey requires plenty of preparation and distribution time. Slack is good We use...
View ArticleDebugging Capybara: screenshot of error page on CircleCI
Having real screenshot of a failed integration spec can save hours of debugging. We had screenshot with error on the local development environment, and wanted to have it on Continuous Integration...
View ArticleBDD-style testing in Swift with Sleipnir
Introduction In Objective-C people use different frameworks to write BDD-style tests for their code. Some of them are: Cedar Kiwi Specta With the inroduction of Swift we’ve decided to create BDD-style...
View ArticleRailsware at Smashing Conference
Intro After being heads down for quite a long time solving front-end tasks and working out effective approaches, we suddenly realized that it would be great to get some view from the outside and...
View ArticleUseful Google Spreadsheet Script Triggers
In my previous blog post, I’ve provided a brief intro to Google Scripts and with this article, I’d like to share several useful code examples that might come handy. Problem ‘Exceeded maximum execution...
View ArticleCapistrano recipe for checking Travis CI build status
Using Continuous Integration is a must for any mature development process, but in the hurry of delivering to production it’s easy to forget about checking build status before issuing “cap production...
View ArticleIntro to Google Scripts
Did you ever know that you can create custom scripts for Google Spreadsheets? The ones that would allow you easily manage your data, i.e. copy it, move between spreadsheets, calculate complex cases and...
View ArticleGlobalize Your Configuration
Quite a lot of applications face the problem of storing configuration data, where configuration differs for development, test and production environments. Yaml files is a common way of organising...
View ArticleAPI with Ruby on Rails: useful tricks
This article is about gotchas you should be aware of while building your API with Ruby on Rails. Controller tricks: API on Metal Sooner or later each Rails developer come to a point when he wants to...
View ArticleHeroku Mailtrap add-on: dummy SMTP for emails testing
Good news for the development teams who run their applications on Heroku cloud application platform and need to constantly test transactional and other emails sent from your app. Railsware is proud to...
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