Working With Rails

About

Tobin Harris is the Managing Director of Engine Room—a small company that offers software development and consultancy.

Experience

MDL We’re helping MDL share marketing resources throughout their group to reduce burden on staff, using a low-fuss, simple intranet.

yUML yUML is an innovative, free service we’ve developed, using Ruby on Rails, to help business analysts and developers create and share diagrams for their requirements documents.

Wells Fargo Bank We helped their business analysts work faster by developing rapid prototyping CASE tools.

Money Portal We helped them collect millions of data points of their providers, and we helped them analyse that data to better understand their business.

Sandwell NHS Trust We developed a web-based Patient Administration System to help clinicians share data between three sites.

AQR We helped them offer a better service to their clients, by implementing an online psychometric testing solution.

NMI We built their infrastructure, helping them collect and deliver over seventy million news articles.

Technology

We’re passionate about technology. We work primarily with Ruby on Rails and the Microsoft .NET framework.

We work on a number of Open Source and community projects – including NHibernate and yUML.

Our Managing Director, Tobin Harris, co-authored the NHibernate in Action book.