Ruby on Rails Development
Delivering Powerful Cloud Solutions

We’ve been designing & building powerful software solutions for over 20 years with a focus on cloud technologies over the last decade, building leading Ruby on Rails applications that are scalable and dependable across all platforms.

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Software Development

Dynamic & Creative Applications

Our in-house, UK team will take your idea and transform it into a highly functional and robust solution that looks great on all devices, across every platform. We're ready to pitch in at any stage of the product development cycle, favouring open-source technologies such as Ruby on Rails to deliver fast, reliable and flexible web applications.

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Ruby on Rails Upgrades

Keeping you ahead of the curve

Upgrading your Ruby on Rails web application onto a later version of the Rails Framework, doesn't have to take up the valuable time of your own internal development resource. We have a wealth of experience in Rails upgrades, allowing your team to keep focussed on delivering the features your customers want to see.

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Bolt-On Developers

Supercharge your existing team

Plug us in to accelerate your software projects and support your existing development team with our highly skilled & experienced Ruby on Rails engineers. Taking the pressure off an already resource constrained department with experienced developers that talk the language and don’t need any support or training.

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Additional Services

Web & Application Maintenance

Reassurance that it’s all in hand

Managing codebases can be complex but don’t let the security and performance of your application suffer, by putting software maintenance at the bottom of the pile. We can provide you with the reassurance that your system is being well taken care of by maintaining existing codebases, security updates & test suites. We’ll keep a watchful eye on your Ruby on Rails application, upgrading to the latest versions of Ruby gems and fixing any bugs that crop up along the way. Dealing with important security updates that shouldn’t be ignored & performing regular application health checks, enabling your system operations to remain proactive not reactive.

Cloud Software Consultancy

Supporting your journey

With extensive experience working with a wide range of software applications, we fully understand the technical challenges that businesses can face. Over the last 20 years we’ve worked across many industries supporting clients in their own software journey, as well as building and launching our own software solutions, in their marketplace. From significant real-world experience, we can support and advise you during any stage of your software project. Pitching in when needed, helping guide roadmaps and offer insight on key areas such as; technology & platform choices, application and database design, coding standards, code performance reviews, application structure, hosting, testing, CI workflows and much more.

Important questions answered

Employing your own software developers can work well, however, finding skilled, available and affordable developers is difficult. We can be your bolt-on team of highly skilled Ruby on Rails experts.
The client has the copyright ownership to any source code we write for them. Whoever appoints and commissions us to write and develop the code, is the owner of this.
We favour flexible, reliable open source technologies such as Ruby on Rails for our backend and React & Javascript for our front-end. See our tech stack below.
Absolutely! We take on projects of all sizes and can be that watchful eye over your application, ensuring all is working as expected, taking care of upgrades, testing and maintenance.
We present back to you at various development stages to ensure you’re happy & believe in rigorous testing (conducting both development and acceptance tests), reviewing every line of code developed.
We’ve been specialising Ruby on Rails applications for 10+ years, developing multi-tenant, globally recognised SaaS solutions that can handle 5 million page requests per day.

Core Technologies & Capabilities

We specialise in the following web applications & software development.

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Ruby on Rails

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Javascript

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React

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Stimulus

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JQuery

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MySQL

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PostgreSQL

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ElasticSearch

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RSpec

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RuboCop

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CI Workflows

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Docker

Giving back to the community

We are dedicated to knowledge sharing and giving back to the wider community by producing open source libraries and insightful articles that help us all upskill.

Flexitime gem

The gem was born of the need to parse date, datetime & time strings in a multi-user environment supporting different locales and time zones.

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Active Manageable Gem

The ActiveManageable gem provides a framework from which to create business logic manager classes

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Boring Avatars

It generates SVG based avatars from any username and color palette in a variety of forms.

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Tailwind Stimulus

This is our collection of Stimulus controllers that help drive various TailwindCSS/UI components.

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Integrations with Ruby on Rails

We build API’s and connect applications with third party integrations using Ruby on Rails.
Here’s a snapshot of what we’ve worked on.

  • Xero
  • QuickBooks Online
  • Mailchimp
  • Adobe Sign
  • ChargeBee
  • Stripe
  • Slack
  • Intercom
  • AppSignal
  • Newrelic
  • Amazon S3 - cloud file storage
  • Mailgun
  • Sendgrid
  • GeoIP

Team insights

We love to share our knowledge in tech & Ruby on Rails insights with the wider community.

Adding a business logic layer to your Ruby on Rails application

Our experience has taught us that the business logic should be decoupled from & function independently of other application layers.

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Parsing Date & DateTime Parameter Values in a Ruby on Rails application

Our suggestions on how to deal with the date and datetime attributes in your Ruby on Rails application.

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Using GitHub Actions to run your tests against different versions of Ruby

GitHub Actions allow you to create custom continuous integration (CI) workflows directly in your GitHub repository.

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Get in touch

At Circle, we welcome all RoR projects and challenges, big or small.
Get in touch today to find out how we can help you.