Ruby on Rails (RoR) Development

Mindfire Solutions provides expert off-shore Ruby on Rails development services which is an open-source web application framework for Ruby programming language that enables developers to build dynamic, data-driven applications and hence generates sustainable efficiency. RoR uses the Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture pattern to organize application programming. By supporting agile development techniques and a philosophy of "convention over configuration (CoC)" and the rapid development principle of  “Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY)”, it has enabled our developers to radically reduce the time and pain involved in creating Web applications. Our team of RoR consultants/developers derives its expertise in RoR technology from their experience in multiple projects - which almost completes the spectrum of RoR in terms of varying applications and industry coverage.

Mindfire Solutions is in the practice of developing and maintaining Ruby on Rails based applications since many years. With an efficient and highly skilled team capable of handling the projects, Mindfire Solutions presents itself as a strong contender for developing Ruby on Rails based applications with considerable size and complexity. Our dedicated RoR developers can create web 2.0 applications using latest Ruby on Rails web services (Major new developments in Rails includes templates, engines, Rack and nested model forms). We are committed to providing our clients with sustainable solutions, quality services and superior support for this latest and well-known open source technology ROR. Our expert RoR programmers can develop systems tailored to all your needs using this technology. With a team of expert Ruby on Rails (RoR) professionals, we can help you weigh the advantages of a Ruby on Rails solution.

Ruby on Rails Services

• Ruby on Rails custom application development services
• Ruby on Rails web-based application development services
• Ruby on Rails porting and migration
• Ruby on Rails QA/testing services

Ruby on Rails support and maintenance

Most common tasks we perform for customers of RoR are as follows:

• Helping customers set up their account to use Rails
• Setting up the hosts for the customer's site with required entries so that their application will run on mongrel, Lighttpd, Apache.
• Starting up the server instances for the client's application
• Making sure that all server instances are up after a server reboot
• Setting up the hosts for the customer's domain for SVN access
• Making necessary ownership changes on SVN repositories so that it can be edited via HTTP or SVN+SSH
• Setting up the hosts for the customer's domain for tracking access and helping them set up admin privileges
• Helping customers use Capistrano with their SVN repository
• Deploying applications for customers

Ruby on Rails Experience

Ruby On Rails Technology Solution

Mindfire's team of RoR developers have good experience and knowledge in RoR application development using RoR and RoR-supported technologies, and all the inbuilt gems provided by Rails. Mindfire's rich expertise in RoR development has been generated in the course of delivering many RoR projects for our clients located in different parts of the world. Technologies/Methodologies we have gained expertise and proven track record are as below:

• Setting up of Development/Testing Environment
• Database Installation and Connection
• Source Code Control
• Coding Standards
• Other Best Practices

Ruby On Rails Development/Testing Environment

The updated versions of the developed applications are regularly deployed on a staging server after unit tests are performed by the developers. The staging server is utilized for internal as well as client testing. Application testing is done on various rails inbuilt testing. This environment helps the customer and end-user test the application over the internet. A bug tracking system is used and provides for a means for capturing their feedback/comments and monitoring project progress.

Ruby On Rails Database Installation and Connection

We provide various options on database to the customer as per their requirements and production environment details.
The current offerings for databases include:

• MySQL
• PostgreSQL
• Oracle 9i
• Oracle 10g

Mindfire Solutions has maintained its expertise in managing these database systems to fulfill the customer expectations.

Ruby On Rails Source Code Control

Mindfire Solutions understands the importance of contingency planning and hence requires mandatory use of source control systems for all the undertaken development work of Ruby on Rails projects. We use CVS and SVN tools for source code control and management. Mindfire Solutions maintains its own CVS and SVN Servers and implements scheduled backups of the servers as a part of Business Continuity Planning.

Ruby On Rails Coding Standards

Mindfire Solutions’ Ruby on Rails Practices follows coding conventions recommended by the RoR community developers. This procedure helps in standardization of the code and allows for ease of readability and maintenance of the code. Moreover, we also believe in maintaining appropriate code to comment ratios for all the source code generated.

Ruby On Rails Support and maintenance

Over the past years, our RoR application support/maintenance team has gained good experience in maintaining RoR applications. Currently our RoR application support/maintenance team is maintaining/supporting many of our already developed RoR applications as well as many RoR projects developed by our clients.

RoR Consulting

Our RoR consultants at Mindfire have a proven track record of providing constructive knowledge based consulting services to our clients. This helps our clients in decision making prior to starting the actual development of their products.

ROR and Systems

The development systems are loaded with the latest and necessary tools and utilities to carry out RoR based application development. The key tools installed include:

• Development Tools (Based on project Requirements)
• RadRails, Scite, Ultaedit editors
• Rails Framework
• SVN Client Tortoise SVN
• DBMS Clients (Based on project Requirements)
• Capistrano Deployment (Based on Project/client requirements)

RoR and industries

Mindfire Solutions has developed assorted applications based on Ruby on Rails Platform, catering different sorts of requirements for different industries. Few of the key areas where we have expertise in are as follows:

• Social Networking
• Blogs & Widgets
• Ad-Media
• Real Estate websites with complex google and custom maps

Context of RoR Development Services

• Audio & Video Streaming
• SAAS or Hosted solution
• File Encoding and Streaming
• Web-Services API
• Content Management System
• Standalone Servers