by Suman Awal Spree is one of the most popular open-source eCommerce platforms build with Ruby on Rails. Spree is popular for it's modularity and flexibility in building and managing the store. Github: https://github.com/spree/spree Spree provides a robust and clean admin interface to manage the commerce and different resource although it might need to manage the new resource by admin. In order to manage the new resource by admin user, there needs to create a Admin Tabs/Menu. Here we will ..read more

When looking at upcoming major releases of projects like Ruby on Rails, it can be easy to get distracted by the big, flashy features, such as Hotwire and encrypted attributes in Rails 7.0. However, sometimes I find myself getting more excited by smaller, more modest additions in upcoming releases. This is the case with the recent merge of a PR to Rails that will form part of Rails 7.1: Add routes --unused option to detect extraneous routes by Gannon McGibbon. We all know the rails routes com ..read more

by Rodrigo Souza The best part of choosing Rspec as your tool for automatic tests is the possibility to describe your expectations with readable text sentences. Today, We will present to you two components of Rspec that can make it even more doable. Shared Contexts Shared contexts is a way to always don't repeat yourself. It allows us to reuse some tests setup (let, subject, described_class, and other generalisms) for different sets of tests. Let's see the example below: # app/models/bottl ..read more

We are excited to announce that Kane Hooper, our long serving and successful COO, has been promoted to the CEO role taking over from Mikel Lindsaar - the Founder of reinteractive. Kane will deal with the day to day operations of the business, while Mikel moves to focus on the future goals of the company as Founder - actively involved with the expansion and success of the company. Mikel is always available to speak with clients and partners of reinteractive to offer assistance and advice. K ..read more

We work hard to make reinteractive a great place to work. On average our developers stay with us well and truly beyond the industry standards - the accepted average is around 2 years, whereas at reinteractive we see many staff staying four, five, or even ten years. So why is this the case? We recently surveyed our staff and heard some really great answers - much better worded than just “it’s a good place to work”, or “the staff are nice”. So let me break it down for you. Who is this arti ..read more

Getting Started with Ruby on Rails - Tutorial Ruby on Rails or Rails, is a server side web application framework written in Ruby. Ruby on Rails' emergence in 2005 greatly influenced web app development and some of the biggest brands use it: AirBnB, GitHub, Bloomberg, Shopify, Crunchbase and Dribble. Over the past two decades, RoR has taken countless companies to millions of users and billions in market valuations. There is a lot to discuss with this Ruby on Rails tutorial and we will lo ..read more

**We created an online student management app, digitizing the student check in process - all fully integrating to Salesforce! Introduction GKR Karate International is an international network of karate dojos spanning Australia, New Zealand, UK and now the US. Founded in the mid 80’s, GKR has over 30,000 members with more than 2,500 classes running each week between 4 countries. They cater to a large student community which is active on socials. Reinteractive has built a custom web app on ..read more

The Benefits of Ruby on Rails - How Popular is Ruby on Rails Still? Why do we love Ruby on Rails? For its entire existence, reinteractive has specialised in Ruby on Rails, and continues to this day to use Rails as its sole software framework (with the exception of frontend frameworks, particularly for mobile applications). And it is for good reason that we have chosen to stay with Rails, some of which I will go over below. It is the programming language that works just as well for big ente ..read more

Why do we love Ruby on Rails? For its entire existence, reinteractive has specialised in Ruby on Rails, and continues to this day to use Rails as its sole software framework (with the exception of frontend frameworks, particularly for mobile applications). And it is for good reason that we have chosen to stay with Rails, some of which I will go over below. It is the programming language that works just as well for big enterprise applications, as well as smaller startups and everything in be ..read more

If you are a user of Salesforce’s platform-as-a-service Heroku you will have received an email this week letting you know that you will shortly be asked to reset your password (or you can do it now in advance). There are doubtless some questions regarding the implications of this, and what brought about such a drastic move. Firstly, the implications. The email mentions that resetting the password will invalidate past API tokens. This means that third party services that you have integrated ..read more