When you’re building a web application, Rails does a load of the heavy lifting for you. Many of the core philosophies of Rails are aimed around only implementing functionality in the place it makes sense.

This turns out to be a great idea for readability, and with practice – and thoughtful naming – it isn’t too difficult to keep your code clean enough that you can see at a glance what it does. You can get to the point where your controller code just gives a high-level overview of what the code does, and leaves all the details to the models and other modules.

Lots of the tools in a Rails developer’s toolbox are commonly known, but there are a couple of useful ones that are newer and haven’t been picked up on as much.

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We’ve been using Ruby on Rails to build websites and web applications for a few years now. We might even consider ourselves one of the leading UK Ruby on Rails specialists.

We thought it was about time we wrote about reasons we use it and why it’s great for our clients.

Read all about our approach to Ruby on Rails development.

We are proud to announce the launch of boxwish.com — ‘The world’s first movie inspiration site’.

Tim and the rest of Team Boxwish have been working really hard to find all of the cool things you saw at the movies, but the real driver behind Boxwish is the user generated content, it’s a community site after all.

So get involved — sign up, and get Spotting!

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It’s easy to forget that Rails only first surfaced in the summer of 2005, just two years ago, and even people in the industry are still discovering it.

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So we’re no longer hosting this blog on Media Temple. Unfortunately their support was nothing short of terrible.

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