A guest post on Engine Yard’s blog by Darcy:
“Whilst prototyping the early stages of a new app with Filter Squad, we found ourselves prototyping a lot of API clients for new versions of APIs that were lacking up to date clients or in the case of other APIs, were missing functionality we required.”
Read the full post over at Engine Yard: Building Structured API Clients with API Smith
It’s been a busy few months at The Frontier Group.
Firstly, a congratulations to our very own Darcy Laycock for winning a Ruby Hero award. The Ruby Hero awards are put in place to recognise people that have gone above and beyond in the Ruby community.
We’ve rolled out our new Frontier Group blog design, and would love to hear what you think of it in the comments below. We’ve also added a Featured Posts section in the sidebar, so you can see what other visitors (and hopefully you) are interested in too.
We’ve been heavily featured in a range of Podcasts recently, such as Ruby5 and The Ruby Show. Also we’ve been featured in prominent Ruby and Rails websites such as Ruby Weekly and Ruby Rogues.
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Here at The Frontier Group we were having trouble finding a simple, extensible way to look at email sent out by our web applications during development. After trying quite a few alternatives, one of our developers Sam Cochran sat down in some spare time and forced slender man into skinny jeans strapped to a mailbox to create MailCatcher.
MailCatcher is a ruby mashup to catch mail sent via SMTP to a local port and serve it in your web browser for easy testing. It lets you check out the plain text and HTML versions of the email, as well as inspecting any attachments. Thanks to WebSockets (in Google Chrome, at least) you’ll see new mail instantly as it arrives.
Installation and usage instructions can be found on the project home page. Over the coming weeks I look forward to sharing some more of our open source contributions from within TFG.
Following the controversial news of CoffeeScript being included with Rails 3.1 as default, Darcy (over at RubySource) posts his introduction to CoffeeScript and how you can use it in your existing Rails applications. Read the full article—Using CoffeeScript in Rails—on RubySource
Today we launched our first iPhone application for our customer, The Menu Book.
We’re very happy with how it’s been received and hope it really contributes to the success of The Menu Book as a venture in Perth.
Check it out in the App Store here: The Menu Book iPhone App
Great web stats at @petrescue , the driving force behind the rebuild of their systems by @frontiergroup . http://t.co/MTvfoxnU
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