Case Study: Synaptor – Manage health, safety, and environmental risk in real time

Posted in Agile Development, Featured, iPhone, Ruby on Rails, Websites or Tools

This week marks the official launch of a project we have been busy working on for the past few months. Since October we have been putting together mobile and web apps for a startup in Perth called Synaptor.

Synaptor is changing the way SMEs in hazardous industries ensure the safety of their people and the environment with innovative mobile and web apps. We’re happy to have been involved in a project for a local company that is going to improve health and safety outcomes in hazardous industries.

We have put together a case study (Synaptor case study) to showcase the products, but here’s a sneak peek below:

Visit the Synaptor website to check out the project, or try out the mobile apps (iPhone/iPad) in the App Store (Observations & Maps)

MailCatcher – a super simple SMTP server that intercepts email for testing

Posted in Ruby on Rails, Websites or Tools

Last year we wrote about MailCatcher, a gem developed by our own Sam Cochran (@sj26). MailCatcher runs a super simple SMTP server which catches any message sent to it to display in a web interface.

There have been many updates in that time, and MailCatcher has picked up a bit of a following too. It’s still a great tool, so if you’re a developer you should check it out.

Here’s some feedback from around the web:

“Ruby Mailcatcher should be deployed in every local development environment, regardless of whether you’re using Ruby.” – @brightball (link)
“Learn about one of @srbiv’s favorite gems – http://mailcatcher.me our latest blog post:” – @highgroove (link)
“MailCatcher is one of the better email testing gems I’ve seen.” – @hkarthik (link)

The latest version is 0.5.5 and can be accessed at MailCatcher.me or Github

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