Ruby on Rails Development
Pathfinder delivers full life cycle Rails development from ideation to implementation

Rich, Powerful Applications In Half the Time
Pathfinder has deep experience integrating Rails with Flex and Ajax frameworks to create breathtaking rich internet applications that are robust, scalable and flexible. Our Rails team includes leading authors, experts and thought leaders in Ruby on Rails. Our Rails books include Professional Ruby on Rails and Rails Prescriptions, and we’ve published a number of Rails plugins, including Tank Engine, the Rails plugin for developing web apps with iPhone look and feel.
Why Rails?
Rails is a full-stack web application development framework that lets you develop rich, powerful applications in a fraction of the time it takes with .NET and J2EE. Rails is “opinionated software”; it has strong opinions about how web applications should be developed. These “opinions” are what allow for Rails’ amazing productivity—if your web application is a nail, then Rails is a highly efficient hammer. With Rails, your applications will be:
- Web 2.0 enabled, with the Rich Internet Application power of Ajax.
- Able to hit aggressive time-to-market targets.
- Able to leverage Web Services and SOA.
- Developed to web application standards and best practices.
- Fully unit and integration tested, using the Rails TDD tools and approach.
Rails introduces radical productivity improvements and follows mantras like “Convention over Configuration,” “If It’s Not Tested; It’s Broken” and “Don’t Repeat Yourself.” These may sound like pithy quotes but they are at the heart of why Rails has been able to deliver such outstanding results.
Why Pathfinder?
Pathfinder provides Rails expertise plus so much more. The Pathfinder team also includes leading experts in Agile Development, Ajax, Web 2.0 and User Experience Design. Our expertise in Agile development and user centered design will ensure your Rails project meets your users needs and delivers value quickly.
We have a proven track record of delivering quality software solutions, on-time and on-budget. Over 80% of our clients engage us again and again because we deliver results and business value. Small startups and Fortune 50 firms alike have all capitalized on our know-how and skills to enable business breakthroughs and competitive advantage.
Looking for results?
When you partner with Pathfinder, you will find an ally that understands your business and brings proven industry experience to jump start your project and ensure that it runs smoothly and finishes on time.
Let us put our experience to work for you. Give us a call at 866-484-2610 or send an email to rails@pathf.com to discuss your specific situation and how we can help you.
Want more information?
Check out Noel Rappin’s newest book: ‘Professional Ruby on Rails’.
Read Pathfinder’s thought leadership articles on the business benefits of Ruby on Rails:
Ruby on Rails: Everyone’s talking about it. Are you?
Harnessing the Power of Social Networking Applications with Facebook and Ruby on Rails
Read Noel Rappin’s “Developing iPhone applications using Ruby on Rails and Eclipse’ series on IBM developerWorks:
Part 1: Serving content for iPhones
Part 2: Displaying iPhone content to the client
Learn more about our Rails iUI Open Source project:
Contact Us Now to Jumpstart your Project
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Results Delivered.
Books We Have Written
Thought Leadership
Ruby on Rails: Everyone’s talking about it. Are you?
Harnessing the Power of Social Networking Applications with Facebook and Ruby on Rails
Noel Rappin’s “Developing iPhone applications using Ruby on Rails and Eclipse” series on IBM developerWorks:
Part 1: Serving content for iPhones
Part 2: Displaying iPhone content to the client

