We continue to meet you with members of our growing team. Today Mikhail Nikalyukin, Ruby Developer from Sevastopol branch, has answered our questions. How have you decided to be a developer? Actually, I have never dreamed of being a developer. At university, where I studied, we had one inspirational teacher, who suggested me to try…

One of the weekends in Kyiv was enlightened by gathering of a great number of IT guys. Hotel Kozatskyi received a conference for Ruby developers – RubyShift. Svitla Systems was a honored sponsor of Rubyshift. The conference was organized to support Ruby community, to give a chance for making new connections, to find new ideas…

Last weekend Svitla’s Ruby developers organized Ruby meetup, as a logical continuation of previous meetups. They gathered Ruby on Rails programmers from Kiev, Kharkov, Cherkassy, ​​Chernivtsi abd discussed the following topics: 1) transition of the project from SQL database on the NoSQL – possible problems and solutions; 2) code smells – how avoid them; 3)…

Are you a good web developer but is tired of known technology? You know that RoR is a modern direction but don’t have enough motivation to study it? We have a decision for you – FREE Ruby/Rails Courses by Vladimir Vorobyov, Svitla’s Ruby/Rails developer. During 3 months, 3 times a week, 2 hours courses will…

Ruby on Rails development outsourcing can be tricky. However, this concept is very simple. It is all about hiring a company to create certain parts of an application coded in Ruby on Rails. Ruby on Rails development outsourcing can offer many things to a company. Those things include the experienced development personnel who will handle…

If you are looking for Ruby on Rails developers for hire, it is best to check offshore companies. It can save you a lot of money, since it is cheaper than getting local engineers or developers for your projects. It can save you from headaches, since the outsourcing company you might hire will take care…

Continuing tradition on RoR meetups in Svitla’s office, please see our next topics we’ve discussed. Marat and Igor had told us about DevOps (Developers – Operations), the methodology, which they had heard at clients’ presentations of an outsourcing company. The fact is that in large projects and corporations there is an imaginary wall between developers…

Our Junior Ruby Developer Roman Franko answered about his first steps in Ruby on Rails development. How have you decided to be a developer? Everything has begun at the moment when I’ve got my  first own computer. It was Mac LC III with MaC OS 7. I had been studying in the College of Radio-Electronic Instrument…

On the 30 th of March, Svitla’s Ruby developers have gathered on the next educational event dedicated to the Wee framework. Rubyists have marked framework’s advantages: the possibility of developing a front- and back-end web applications using one language with the resulting architectural solutions, use of the continuation opportunities, by which the proper use of…

Ruby on Rails is known as a dynamic object-oriented scripting language which primarily aims to combine all the benefits of the different scripting languages all over the world. If you are thinking of Ruby on Rails web development, then you should know that one of RoR best features is the Model Views controller architecture which…