Almost all of the digital work done by Fudge involves the use of Ruby on Rails in some way or another. Those of you that have worked with Ruby on Rails will know that the first steps in creating your application often involve installing and configuring the same items over and over again.

We’re working on several community based projects at the moment, all of which depend on a basic set of functionality. For example, we almost always need mechanisms to power systems such as:

• User authentication
• Record pagination
• Error notification

With this in mind, we have put together a base rails app configuration that we have released to the rails community at large. We call it Bort (due to the mild Simpsons obession shared by our development team), and it’s aim is to save us, and many others, the time it takes to get your app off the ground.

You can download it from Github

Jim Neath (a developer at Fudge), has put together some more info on his blog: jimneath.org

Feel free to give us feedback through Github. And don’t forget, if you think it’s good, but doesn’t do exactly what you need, you can easily fork the project with your own Github account.

To find out more about us, visit fudgestudios.com