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Ruby on Rails

Popular Ruby Videos for Everyday Learning

There are numerous ways to study and improve Ruby on Rails level. Whether getting valuable knowledge from books or podcasts or enrolling into an online course or trying some tutorial, you are sure to open the door into one of the most popular...

Alex B.
Alex B.

Project Manager at iKantam

Project Management

Employees vs. Independent contractors: do you know the real price of hiring?

Have you ever thought about the real hourly cost of on-site employees? Global experience has shown that it’s hard enough to calculate your expenses exactly. Employees can cost twice and even triply higher than you expect. Does it sound unreal? Have...

Alex B.
Alex B.

Project Manager at iKantam

Project Management

Employees vs. Independent contractors: do you know the real price of hiring?

Have you ever thought about the real hourly cost of on-site employees? Global experience has shown that it’s hard enough to calculate your expenses exactly. Employees can cost twice and even triply higher than you expect. Does it sound unreal? Have...

Alex B.
Alex B.

Project Manager at iKantam

Project Management

Employees vs. Independent contractors: do you know the real price of hiring?

Have you ever thought about the real hourly cost of on-site employees? Global experience has shown that it’s hard enough to calculate your expenses exactly. Employees can cost twice and even triply higher than you expect. Does it sound unreal? Have...

Alex B.
Alex B.

Project Manager at iKantam

Mobile Development

Bitcoin Hardfork Developed by Ikantam Team

What is Bitcoin? To start with and avoid confusion, we need to separate it into two components. On the one hand, you have bitcoin-the-token, a snippet of code that represents ownership of a digital concept – sort of like a virtual IOU. On the other...

Alex B.
Alex B.

Project Manager at iKantam

Ruby on Rails

Popular Websites Built with Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails is one of the most popular frameworks nowadays. A great increase in the number of Ruby coders started about 10 years ago is mainly explained by the launch of this framework. The framework has become the best choice for startups thanks to a number of factors: fast web development, great ecosystem and community, open-source and free, flexible and adaptable. It is actively used in e-commerce as well and introduced in many CMS platforms. Ruby on Rails is one of the best technologies that manages website complexity with ease due to the Ruby language and a big amount of gems. Let's...

Alex B.
Alex B.

Project Manager at iKantam

Ruby on Rails

Must-Read Ruby Books

Constant learning and enough amount of practice help to improve programmer's level. There are numerous online courses and tutorials that do a really good job. But what about paper sources of information? Are there any useful books for Rubyists? Though web development and new methods move at a stunning pace, books play an important role in studying process. It's not wise to call them all outdated and irrelevant.  Good books are written by true professionals in their sphere. In tutorials writers share their experience and provide invaluable theoretical material to master by practice. So...

Alex B.
Alex B.

Project Manager at iKantam

UI/ UX

In Search of Perfect Design

In this article I would like to talk about the notion of perfect design and how to try to achieve it (or get closer at least). The topic is quite subjective and there may appear a lot of questions. Where is the golden mean of perfect design? Is it possible to create such design? If yes what should we do first to create perfect design? Scratch one’s head and doubt how to begin? Let's review the basic things for a start.  I think that great design starts with a well-done prototype that shows the main idea. I can understand that due to different circumstances (budget restrictions or when...

Anton N.
Anton N.

UI Designer at iKantam

Ruby on Rails

Top Ruby on Rails eCommerce Platforms

Content management systems are developed to simplify many things on the Web. We have already checked several popular Ruby platforms that do a great job. But what about E-commerce? Is there are any decent CRM in Ruby on Rails to compete with similar solutions available in other programming languages? Let’s have a look and review the most prominent ones.    Spree Commerce It is one of the most popular and the biggest open source e-commerce platforms using Ruby on Rails. It claims to have about 45000 retailers around the world to use their solution. It is not surprising as Spree...

Alex B.
Alex B.

Project Manager at iKantam

Ruby on Rails

Top Ruby CMS

Since the late 90s content management systems (CMS) have been increasing in their popularity. It’s not surprising as they provide tools and environment to manage the content without any special coding skills. So no need to be a Jedi and hand code anything: with certain efforts and minimal time spent even newbies will feel comfortable with CMS. There are many content management systems created in different programming languages. I would like to focus on Ruby and make a short list of popular CMS available in this language.     Refinery It is a Rails-based CMS with over 460000...

Alex B.
Alex B.

Project Manager at iKantam

Ruby on Rails

Ruby Tutorials for Beginners

Online tutoring is very convenient way to get some basic knowledge in a particular sphere. You don’t need to attend any lectures or seminars, pile up the table with numerous textbooks to find necessary information. It is quite the opposite:  you need a laptop, internet connection, comfortable place for your classes and a big motivation to learn something new. So yes, online tutoring is very popular nowadays. The web, in its turn, has a great deal to offer. The variety of online Ruby on Rails tutorials is so big (the same holds true for Ruby courses we used to talk before) that it seems a...

Alex B.
Alex B.

Project Manager at iKantam

Ruby on Rails

Top Ruby on Rails Courses

It is hard to overestimate the necessity to study new programming languages. Advanced programmers have always been in high demand and the need in programming skills will be only increasing with years (maybe someday code writing will be fully automatic and run by machines; but in any case it is not that soon and it will be the last human activity to be replaced). Programming is the future. No surprise that there appear so many online programming courses and tutorials. These courses appeal to numerous students who try to improve their career prospects. Let’s review the most popular online...

Alex B.
Alex B.

Project Manager at iKantam

Web Development

FullStack Gathering in Minsk. First Impressions

Visiting web tech events is very important. There is even a Ruby conference list to remember about that. I decided to start with some local events. My first stop was Full Stack Gathering. The conference was organized by MinksJS community at Event Space location. Generally speaking, I didn’t feel comfortable enough because the majority of developers were Node.js ones. I guess the reason for that is the specific character of Belarusian web development. Nevertheless, some Python developers from Wargaming were present as well. Moreover, the topics discussed at the conference were quite general so...

Oleg K.
Oleg K.

Ruby on Rails Developer at iKantam

Ruby on Rails

Top Ruby Events

Web development industry is not static. It is quite the opposite: new methods and ideas appear and get popular within a moment. The concept that seems weird and not generally accepted may become a trend. Technology is constantly improved and changed. Progressive developers cannot afford themselves staying behind.  One of the best ways to be in the centre of web development trends is to visit conferences (either big full stack development events or specific ones devoted to one technology). Tech conferences give opportunity to exchange experience, communicate with other developers and...

Alex B.
Alex B.

Project Manager at iKantam

Ruby on Rails

Making Real-Time Chat Rooms Use WebSockets on Rails

A lot of complex web applications need a chat for users: starting from social networks and finishing with job seeking portals. It is fast and effecient to chat in real time. Moreover, there is no need to reload pages.  Real-time chat means immediate message exchange. Let's see how to create chats on Rails using WebSocket protocol which is actually not supported in this framework. Nevertheless, it is possilbe to include this useful technology in our project.  What are WebSockets? WebSockets is a protocol providing full-duplex communication channels over a single TCP connection. With...

Dima Y
Dima Y

Ruby on Rails Developer at iKantam