Carlos Antônio, our first employee, is moving forward after 5 years at Plataformatec. In this blog post, we share a bit about our story, open source projects, and what Carlos is leaving as legacy to us.

Last month some amazing developers gave a sneak peek on how they write CSS in their companies – Mark Otto has written about CSS at GitHub, followed by Ian Feather’s post about Lonely Planet’s CSS and Chris Coyier write up about CodePen’s code – so I thought about sharing a bit of how we have … »

The article below was originally written by Kasper Timm Hansen (@kaspth on github & twitter) about his work during the Google Summer of Code 2013. Kasper and I worked a lot changing the underlying implementation of the sanitize helper to give Rails developers a more robust, faster and secure solution to sanitize user input. This … »

Rails 4 supports arrays fields for PostgreSQL in a nice way, although it is not a very known feature. In order to demonstrate its usage it’s useful to explain the context where this was used. PostgreSQL Arrays and Rails Migrations Suppose we have a Product model with the following fields: name, category_id and tags. The … »

When we start programming with Ruby, one of the first niceties we learn about are the Ruby blocks. In the beginning it’s easy to get tricked by the two existing forms of blocks and when to use each: %w(a b c).each { |char| puts char } %w(a b c).each do |char| puts char end The … »

The first post of Low Internal Software Quality series. Not only physical matter deteriorates, software does too It’s known that physical matter deteriorates. People accept that and have always dealt with it. What people don’t accept so easily is that software “deteriorates” too. Unlike physical matter, it doesn’t happen due to some physical or chemical … »