Recent Blog Posts

• Chain of Responsibility for web requests

  A technique to optionally handle web requests in an extendable way Read More

  Sundeep Gupta - Jan 19, 2016

• Plotting data for the web

  Using the D3 library to create dynamic plots Read More

  Eduardo Poleo - Dec 1, 2015

• Frozen_state

  Command your State - Using commands and actions to modify your state Read More

  Enric Ribas - Dec 1, 2015

• Extracting meaningful data from the web

  Integrating rails APIs with js dynamic frameworks to create interactive sites Read More

  Eduardo Poleo - Nov 17, 2015

• Influitive Values: Open, Honest, and Direct Communication

  A look at one of Influitive’s values and its consequences. Read More

  Mike Stok - Oct 6, 2015

• How We Work: Retrospectives

  If I had to describe our agile process in a few words, I'd say we're non-denominational Agile. We leave a lot up to our individual squads in terms of how they want to operate. One thing we do hold sacred, however, is the retrospective meeting. Read More

  Ryan Brunner - Sep 11, 2015

• How We Work: Fist of Five

  Making simple decisions can counter-intuitively be one of the most difficult things to accomplish on a team. Read More

  Ryan Brunner - Sep 4, 2015

• How we work - Pair Programming

  Pairing is a big part of how we develop software at Influitive. We’ve been pairing nearly as long as the company has been around, and it’s had a huge impact on the quality of our code and how we work together as a team... Read More

  Ryan Brunner - Sep 3, 2015

• Don't Use a Shared Connection on Full Stack Capybara Tests

  A while back, Jose Valim posted a Gist on using a shared db connection for Capybara acceptance tests... Read More

  Brad Robertson - Sep 2, 2015

• An idea for React with a Flux-y data store

  React is an amazing advancement in web development. It creates an implementation that is simple to create, reuse, and understand... Read More

  Enric Ribas - Sep 2, 2015

• Extraordinary Functions ~ Learning to Write Well Structured JavaScript

  If you are a web developer looking to broaden your horizons regarding JavaScript, to take the leap from using it for simple DOM scripting, to writing complex, well structured programs, I offer some modest advice... Read More

  Leon Lukashevsky - Jan 2, 2015

• Synch Up

  In my two years at Influitive, we have grown incredibly quickly from 5 people to now at almost 40. At times, we have grown quicker than the business practices and processes we had in place and had to adapt solutions quickly sometimes ending in less than ideal results... Read More

  Enric Ribas - Sep 2, 2013

• Service Vs Object

  At Influitive, our RubyOnRails app is getting large, quite large, and we are struggling with staying agile as we accumulate technical debt... Read More

  Enric Ribas - Sep 2, 2013

• Complexity 2

  In a previous blog post, I tried to describe some of the problems of using Rails with very large applications. In this post, I would like to take a look at a more concrete example, and perhaps find one possible solutions... Read More

  Enric Ribas - Sep 2, 2013

• Complexity 1

  Ruby on Rails has been an amazing revolution in developing web applications. It has transformed the way we work and has introduced many of us to new concepts like testing and REST and has truly advanced the industry... Read More

  Enric Ribas - Sep 2, 2013