Working With Rails

Inventables

Location: United States, Chicago, IL

Our web app helps companies you’ve heard of like Microsoft X-Box, PING Golf Clubs, and Kraft Cheese make better products for consumers. It does this by connecting our customers that make consumer products to our vendors that make innovative materials and technologies like gel magnets, tension sensing rope, and stainless steel yarn. Think of us like a dating site for technology buyers and sellers. Our mission is to make it SIMPLE to source and sell these cool technologies globally.

We use agile software development techniques to relentlessly focus our coding efforts on solving our business goals. We kick off each morning with our standup meeting. Here we run through yesterday’s progress and discuss what’s on deck for today. We develop in one week iterations and track our stories and velocity with Pivotal Tracker. We set high level goals for the month, but we encourage frequent inspection and adaptation each week. This approach encourages teamwork, self-organization and accountability. Our approach to code is highly disciplined. We believe that by writing tests first you gain superior insight not just into what your code needs to do, but also how it should be structured. We pair program, and we follow the red-green-refactor loop relentlessly. We deliver early and often. We believe that these practices lead to higher code quality. Finally, we believe in using the best tools for the job. Right now we’re using GitHub for source control; Ruby on Rails for our web development stack; and Cucumber, Rspec, and friends for our testing.

Homepage: http://www.inventables.com