So, do you guys do only Ruby for the backend?
This is a question we are asked all too frequently from outside the company. However, we recently asked this very question ourselves. Yes, we only do Ruby and that isn't going to change anytime soon.
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Three years running our first business: lessons learnt
Everyone said that a full-remote, employees-first, quality-driven consultancy highly specialised in niche technologies would not work. Here we are after three years.
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How to do agile prototyping using static pages to reduce development time
Learn how we help our customers to reduce their time to market by prototyping on static pages, not on the real product.
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Five reasons why you should attend next year's EuRuKo
We're huge fans of the EuRuKo, and we think you should be one, too.
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What is the best Ruby on Rails CMS?
We have compared the most popular CMS built with Ruby on Rails according to user experience, flexibility to develop on top of them and other Martian criteria.
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Five reasons why our clients love Ruby on Rails for their apps
Contrary to popular belief, developing your project using Ruby on Rails won't make it more difficult to maintain. It's a competitive advantage, nowadays.
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How to create a fast, secure, and SEO-oriented landing page for free
Learn how to create landing pages that are secure, fast and SEO-oriented for free with Jekyll & Middleman
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How we upgraded an obsolete Ruby on Rails application with lots of legacy code (part 1)
This post is the first one of a series where we break down how to correctly upgrade a Ruby on Rails application.
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Code refactoring: when, why and who
While code refactoring is cool and appealing, it's not the right choice always.
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The Martians conquer the IronHack
At MarsBased, we collaborate with dozens of different initiatives. Ironhack is one of those we love the most.
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How we make the right app for you (part 2)
A full breakdown of our techstack as of March 2014.
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How we make the right app for you (part 1)
We're often asked "what do you guys do at MarsBased?" when we're out there promoting our little dev shop. While it might get repetitive after a few hundred times, it gets never tiring: it helps us to perfect the answer. And actually, it's been a good proof that we were not conveying our message clearly enough through our communication channels.
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