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buywithme.com

Buy With Me is a web application which allows groups of people to participate in “group buying” deals from selected vendors — based on a minimal threshold of participants joining the deal. We did the UI design and backend development for this project.

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Open source projects

  • Shoulda The Shoulda Rails plugin is an eclectic set of additions to the Test::Unit framework that makes writing tests a breeze.
  • Paperclip Paperclip is a plugin for Ruby on Rails’ Active Record that lets files work as simply as any other attributes do.
  • Factory Girl Factory Girl is a replacement for Rails’ testing “fixtures” which allows for a more maintainable approach to creating test data.
  • Jester REST/ActiveResource client library written in JavaScript. You can use it to read, create, and save your Rails application’s data in your browser.

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