We have the right combination of skills and experience to deliver high-quality software that actually works with proven results.

Ruby on Rails Development and Consulting

As Ruby and Rails continuously changing, we stay updated by studying pull requests and commits beyond the headlines for a deep understanding. Then, we craft blog posts about what we have learned and so far, we have published more than 300+ blog posts providing valuable perspectives on the framework's latest features.

Our Blogs & Publications on 

Ruby on Rails

We solve real business needs. Some clients engage us to build a functional prototype in just a few weeks. With others, we become their entire development team for years after the initial engagement. Some applications need to HIPAA compliant, while others scale to massive size with complex payment processing.

We work with diverse clients from diverse fields

Over the years, we worked with Ruby on Rails and our enthusiasm for the framework grew. We have made tons of open-source contributions to Ruby on Rails code. BigBinary team members are constantly sending pull requests, reviewing other contributors' pull requests, and giving back to the Rails community.

BigBinary folks have contributed to Ruby on Rails.

At BigBinary, our highly-technical experts built web and mobile apps for leading companies and startups using Ruby on Rails, ReactJS, and React Native. BigBinary has been an active contributor to Ruby on Rails.

BigBinary has 12+ years of experience working with Ruby on Rails. We were early adopters of Ruby on Rails after realising its exceptional productivity compared to other technologies. We worked with Ruby on Rails and started contributing towards it, leading to our in-depth understanding of the framework's intricacies. Through these contributions, we not only enhanced our skills but also shared our knowledge by writing blogs.

12+ years of web development using Ruby on Rails

BigBinary Services - Expert Ruby on Rails Consultancy

Most of our projects in the last 12 years fall in this category. We 
start with the objectives of the project. The next step is to develop the 
wireframes. The wireframes do not need to be fancy or very polished. 
It should be enough to convey what we are building so that all the team 
members are on the same page. We have worked with wireframes hand-drawn on 
a piece of paper to very polished wireframes done in Figma.

After the wireframes are done, we jump into development. If there are not too many 
collaborators then we use GitHub itself for tracking the issues. However, we have 
also worked with Trello, Asana, Linear and JIRA for project management and task tracking.

We continuously deploy the application to a staging application. In this way, 
anyone can see a working application at any time.


End-to-end Ruby on Rails application development

Ruby on Rails moves fast. We understand that some projects are not able to 
upgrade to the latest Ruby on Rails version immediately. And as time passes, 
these projects fall further and further behind in the Rails version, and 
catching up with the latest Ruby on Rails version becomes very daunting.

This is where BigBinary’s expertise can help. Over the last 12 years, we have 
upgraded many Rails applications and have made those projects up to date with 
the latest version of Ruby on Rails. The cost of not having the latest Ruby on Rails 
version is hidden. You pay this cost very slowly in terms of lost productivity. 

Every new version of Ruby on Rails brings more good stuff. The new gems make 
themselves compatible with the latest version of Ruby on Rails. If you are using 
an older version of Ruby on Rails, you will spend more time finding the gem that 
works with the older version of Rails. 

You will constantly look at the API of an older version of Rails. If a new team 
member joins the project, it will take much longer to get up-to-date because that 
person might want to use a method introduced in the latest version of Ruby on Rails. 
Since the project is not using the latest version of Ruby on Rails, the newcomer 
would have to find an alternative way.

Finally, there is the issue of security. The Ruby on Rails core team maintains 
security of only certain versions of Ruby on Rails as per their [Official Security Policy](https://guides.rubyonrails.org/maintenance_policy.html#security-issues). 
We all should take security seriously, and we should try to have our projects in the 
latest version of Ruby on Rails.


Upgrading Ruby on Rails Application

These days, customers expect the applications to run fast. It doesn’t matter if they 
interact with thousands or millions of records. They expect the graphs to load quickly. 
The chat messages to come fast. Attachments to show up fast. Ruby on Rails is out of 
the box quite fast. However, as we build applications, small design decisions here 
and there can start weighing in on the performance. And before you know it, the 
application slows down.

BigBinary has been working with Ruby on Rails applications for over 12 years. During 
this period, we have worked on a variety of challenges related to the performance of 
the Ruby on Rails applications. It could be a simple N+1 problem. Or it could be that 
Sidekiq is misconfigured. Maybe the Redis cache is not working out very well, and instead 
of improving the performance, it’s harming the performance.

We have seen that many companies opt for higher computing power to deal with performance 
issues. It can help mask the performance issue for a while. But it also means they are 
paying too much and not utilizing the resources properly.


Performance Enhancements

Ruby on Rails is a sharp tool. That’s why we love it. However, it also means that it’s 
quite easy to write a code that in the long run is harder to maintain. We have seen 
code where for small reasons the core classes were opened and custom methods were 
added to the core classes. In some cases, the existing method was being overridden.

These and other similar coding practices can make code harder to understand and harder 
to maintain. Ruby on Rails provides a better way to handle such cases.
A code audit can take anywhere between 2 to 5 days depending on the size and 
the complexity of the project. 

At the end of the audit you will get a detailed report on what we found along with our recommendations.


Code Audit

BigBinary has been a huge asset for Gumroad. They've helped us ship features we wouldn't have been able to otherwise. If you’re looking for a ruby/rails-focused dev shop, they have my full endorsement!