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But who'd like to learn during the weekend... Relax, chill, rest a little. And brace yourself! Rails Tutorial is coming!

Do you know what fat cats like twitter (in its early days), yellow pages, basecamp, hulu, shopify, slideshare or github have in common? They’re all, along with more than other 800.000 existing websites running Ruby on Rails. How about staying behind such tech success by yourself?

As we make our living from using open source projects we feel that we owe something to the community, that we need to pay back our own contribution. To create the greater good that everyone may benefit from. Yeah, we’ve all heard that before, right? ;-) But besides paying a debt of gratitude, are there other reasons for opensourcing our own code? What exactly makes us do the open source?

If you have a Rails application running on the SAP Hana platform the issue you may encounter is how to allow users to login with their SAP account. We’ve managed to accomplish it and we would like to share with you a small tutorial about how we did that.

Tips how to tackle with video processing.

The implementation of CarrierWave with Voyeur gem is pretty outdated at the moment, so I thought I could share something more up to date

Getting your Rails app running on the SAP HANA Cloud Platform

Do you remember your first steps in Ruby on Rails? Can you recall your first line of code? For a while, let's go back to the good old days.

Lit stands for “Lost in translation” and it describes mountable Rails engine that helps you and your client with translating Rails applications. As most of our work is made for foreign clients, we know the pain of translating few thousand phrases. You can use YAML files and forward them to the client. Good luck with that - it only confuses people. That's why we've started looking for an easier way - web interface for managing I18n translations.

Let's celebrate the 21st anniversary of Ruby!

Ruby 2.1.0 introduced many performance improvements.

If you haven’t installed Jenkins yet, hop over to the Jenkins Wiki page on installing Jenkins.

We do love programming hackatons – we have some experience with Rails Rumble and now it seems that we know something about game programming as well. Last weekend Ludlum Dare 27 took place, with leading theme – “10 seconds”.

Today I struggled for a few hours with non-working FB.ui share dialog on facebook tab (so no authorization was required whatsoever). The strange thing was that the script worked great in dev environment and refused to work in production.

Recently I was wondering if it’s really easy to create own processor / converter for CarrierWave.