Ruby on Rails

Our projects:

Project Title: Elusivestars (beta)
Timeline: 07/2011 - now
Category: Web Development > Web Programming
  URL: http://elusivestars.com
  Description: Using elusivestars Developers have their Apps tested by real users with real devices.
elusivestars manages App distribution and collects Member feedback. Developers use the feedback to improve their Apps.

Project Title: Ontour
Timeline: 09/2011 - 09/2011
Category: Web Development > Web Programming
URL: http://ontourtravel.heroku.com/
Description: This is a legacy project codebase, was written in Rails 2.3.8 and originally ran under Ruby 1.8.7, I got this code from our client then continue to develop it. One of the tasks is deploying this project to Heroku. 
The original file uploader used in this project was file_column, I had to migrate to Carrierwave (which is my favorite gems for files uploading) 0.4.1 (which is compatible with Rails 2.x) and fix some bugs caused by the version issues. 

As this is a legacy code, the previous coder(s) used some pretty old gems.

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Project Title: Gibbons
Timeline: 09/2011 - 09/2011
Category: Web Development > Web Programming
URL: http://gibbons.heroku.com/
Description: This site is for a tourism company. I use Devise + Cancan for authentication and roles system. Also meta_search, meta_where to search for trips. This site has an entity called Page which need friendly_id gem to have a SEO url. In this project, I use CarrierWave, Fog, Rmagick for uploading/processing/storing files (on AS3). Personally I find Carrierwave a better, more flexible, easier to use than Paper_clip.

Moreover, we use HTML5 also.

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Project Title: Crescent
Timeline: 08/2011 - current
Category: Web Development > Web Programming
URL: http://www.crescentlettings.co.uk/
Description: I use Rails 3.0.x; gmap4rails and geocoder for mapping stuffs, paper_clip for uploading files. meta_search, meta_where for searching. Some of my favorite gems too: Devise for authentication system, formtastic for forms, jquery-rails for using jQuery instead of Prototype.
This site "Offering a friendly and professional service with experienced staff local to the area and having full knowledge of the local market. Within each office we also have a dedicated person who will handle the day to day management of each property. Over the course of the last seven years our product portfolio has grown year on year and we have let a wide variety of properties to suit all budgets and requirements. We take pride in ensuring our properties are well maintained during the course of the tenancies."

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Our experts:

Giang Nguyen Duc: 

Senior Rails developer for 3 years. Very familiar with Rails 2x/Rails 3.0.x/Rails 3.1, CoffeeScript, jQuery/Prototype, HAML, SASS, FB Connect, FB App, Twitter API, MySQL/SQLite3, Git/SVN, have experiences working on Joyent Node.js, Linode server, Github, Heroku, deploying Rails app to Bluehost, GoDaddy, Justhost... Also do good design job using Photoshop. My slogan is "Precision, Reliable, Fast"

Favorite gems: Devise + Cancan + Omniauth (for authentication system), jquery-rails, formtastic, meta_search and meta_where, will_paginate or kaminari (for pagination), Carrierwave or Paper_clip (file_column when I was with Rails 2) + Fog + Rmagick for files uploading....

Using Unfuddle, Pivotal, Basecamp, Lighthouse for managing projects. I like Unfuddle the most as its layout, its way to handle tickets are easy to use, easy to see. Pivotal, Basecamp, Lighthouse are good, too.

Using Heroku for deploying projects during both development and production. I find this is the best way for development: we don't have to setup the environments, don't have to care about the server is live or not (as Heroku always try to keep them all alive)

Using Github to store my codebase, this is really a good place for source control purpose as well as finding good gems.

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