Ruby on Rails Agile

technical excellence delivered

March-April 2010

If your project is suffering from…

• High cost of change management• Poor software code quality and maintainability

• Lack of technical expertise and leadership• Complicated and inflexible processes

• …then we have an answer

Who we are

• A cohesive team of enthusiastic professionals• Developing applications with Ruby since 2006– Social networking, collaboration & teamwork– Mobile and Gaming

• Experienced in large scale international Web projects – 100M+ page views per month– 600K+ users, 50K+ daily active users

Our main clients

• Pikkle, Japan’s leading social games publisher– http://pikkle.com/company/factsheet– Our projects featured on:– http://www.slideshare.net/d3ntaku/pikkle-social-

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• Exvo.com, an online teamwork solutions provider (our former client)– http://desktop.exvo.com

Our projects – Pocket Aquarium

• A very successful social game deployed in Mixi, one of the most popular social networks in Japan

• The application gets ~10000 new users per day, the number of daily active users is roughly a half of all the registered users

• It is a Ruby on Rails application with Flash Lite 2 front-end.

Our projects – Rhythm Star

• Rhythm Star is another social game on top of Mixi and OpenSocial container

• It's a Ruby on Rails application with Flash Lite 2 front-end. The application has 600,000+ registered users

Our projects – JooJoo.jp

• JooJoo.jp is a social network launched by Pikkle Inc. containing multiple games and other social features

• It is a Merb application with Flash Lite 2 front-end• One of most challenging projects our company ever

had because of massive refactoring work needed to fix problematic code produced by several other outsourcing companies

• Pikkle Inc. don't use any other outsourcing company except our team for their projects after Joojoo.jp project

Our services and contribution

• We have suggested the architecture, design and back-end implementation using BDD/Rspec (http://rspec.info) as well as deployment on Amazon AWS with auto scaling, performance optimization

• We have also established XP (Extreme Programming) based process and consult client's onsite team remotely regarding various development methods and techniques

Our projects – Get it Done for Exvo

• Get it Done is one of applications developed for Exvo.com

• This application is very similar to famous Basecamp, but offers unique feature – automated and human quality translation

• We have also developed Exvo ID and Exvo Payments services, used for the Exvo.com suite

• Get it Done was integrated with Exvo ID & Payments

Our people and skills

• Core team of highly-skilled developers• Well-established and proven agile process• Ability to spread the culture and expertise• Access to talented individuals through

rubyonrails.lt community, founded and nurtured by us

• Access to the talent of our students – we teach and do research at Vilnius University, Lithuania

• Project coordinators based in the UK and USA

Our expertise

• We have developed numerous Ruby on Rails and Merb applications, however we have strict nondisclosure agreements preventing us from naming the clients, in most cases

• If you are interested in some specific expertise, do not hesitate to ask us for more information

Our strengths

• We are passionate and committed to achieve and deliver

• We tailor the process to our customers’ unique needs and provide them on-going support through mentoring and coaching

• We have an excellent track record of helping our clients to succeed

Agile Process

Open Source

Key focus areas

• Technical enablement of Web start-ups • Agile enterprise projects• Assistance to struggling projects

Thank you!

More questions?Saulius Grigaitis, Adomas Svirskas

info@rubyonrails.ltasvirskas@gmail.com