Bryce McDonnell

I’ve recently been using Shoulda as my testing framework of choice to speed up my Rspec test writing. One common pattern kept recurring which was totally vexing: I wasn’t able to test my custom routes. Just recently, I was writing a reviews controller that is mostly controlled by an admin user of the site. It’s [...]

Precision Text, a brand new company with only an idea, needed to hire a solid web developer to bring their new business idea to life. After a few conversations, we both agreed that the best way to bring this idea to the marketplace would be to use the Ruby on Rails framework and a solid text messaging API.

The application allows for business owners to gather a list of their customer’s cell phone numbers. The business can then send out a message to these customers alerting them of new deals or special offers. The response rate has been high and the utility to the business has been huge.