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We do pretty much everything in Ruby. We love it. We have a lot say about it.

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Ruby Tips & Tricks (part 2)

Posted in November 2014 on the aTech Media blog

Last week, I posted part one of my Ruby Tips & Tricks for people new to Ruby. In part two, we've got a whole new set of fantastic things you may find useful:

Ruby Tips & Tricks (part 1)

Posted in November 2014 on the aTech Media blog

Every day I use a huge number of different Ruby features and I take them for granted. It's not until you are thrown into the world of PHP or vanilla...

Documentation Engine for Rails

Posted in October 2014 on the aTech Media blog

A couple of months ago, I wrote a Rails engine which provides applications with complete documentation library functionality by simply adding a gem.

Encrypting & signing stuff in Ruby

Posted in October 2014 on the aTech Media blog

Securing your communications between parts of your infrastructure has never been more important. For encryption, in most cases, you can rely on normal SSL on HTTP connections (HTTPS) however what...

Gulp & Rails

Posted in July 2014 on the aTech Media blog

I’ve recently started using Gulp rather than the built-in asset pipeline in Rails. Gulp provides a fair amount of additional flexibility and functionality which I am very much enjoying.

Introducing Shoppe

Posted in November 2013 on the aTech Media blog

During October, I started looking for an e-commerce platform we could use to launch our first line shop for Dial 9. We needed to be able to sell products from...