BFS develop their 1st system with Ruby on Rails

Blue Fountain Systems have developed their first application built using Ruby on Rails. The system is a shipment management application for a leading car parts supplier based in Northern France.

Ian Cottee, BFS Technical Director explained "We are always seeking to integrate new technologies into our working habits where beneficial. Ruby on Rails has certainly helped us to produce better interfaces with more resiliant code and we'll be looking to utilise it more and more for future projects."

Technically the product, code named “Lilac”, is a PostgreSQL backed application with a Ruby on Rails front end which uses AJAX technology to give a quick, user friendly interface.

Ruby on Rails, often called RoR or just Rails, strives for simplicity, allowing real-world applications to be developed in less code than other frameworks and with a minimum of configuration.

Ruby on Rails was extracted from Basecamp, a project-management tool, by David Heinemeier Hansson.

It was first released to the public in July 2004. Version 1.0 was released December 13, 2005.