Railsware 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ArticleFamous 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...
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