Invoicing is one of the most important and complex parts of almost any  application that allows its users to perform payments. With all the numbers, taxes, fields, rules, and equations it can give a developer quite a headache. Fortunately, many solutions for invoicing exist and lucky for us, many of them are available in Rails. Let’s take a look at some of the ways we can implement invoicing in our Ruby on Rails app.

It’s my pleasure to introduce the new CEO of Netguru, Marek Talarczyk- this change is one of the biggest in Netguru’s 11 year history. He will focus on making Netguru a first-choice consulting agency for companies looking for digital transformation or who want to positively influence the world through beautiful digital products.

 How can introducing microservices into your next project make it better? There’s a number of clear, tangible benefits of using microservices for app development. But how can connecting microservices and Node.js enhance the project workflow and what business values does it bring to the project? We will explain it step by step.

When you start a new project, one of the main concerns is development time. After all, your market is changing all the time, and the longer you wait, the bigger the likelihood that someone else will implement the idea before you, thus getting the competitive advantage. But if you have a working version of your product, either to show to investors or to gain traction of your business, you can get ahead of your competition. Many companies also start with an MVP to get to know the real needs of the users. In this article, we’d like to check if using Flutter for MVP hybrid app development is a good idea.

We love using Ruby On Rails at Netguru. We are one of the fastest growing Ruby on Rails consulting companies in the world. It’s our framework of choice in most cases - we know its best and worst aspects, and we feel comfortable using it. That being said, we're aware that there are other Ruby frameworks worth looking at. Today we want to show you Hanami – an alternative to RoR.

Welcome back! I hope you got to implement at least some of the tips from the previous article. In case you have missed it, check out or calendar- and inbox-oriented advice here: How To Manage Your Time While Working As A PM? 10 Hands-On Tips on How to Make Your Calendar and Inbox Great Again.

The decision of what tools you use for any task tends to have a huge impact on your work, time and final results. Before using the most popular solution, it’s a good idea to do at least basic research on your other options. I’ll show you a good alternative for many CMS apps built in Ruby – RefineryCMS. You might find basic information on the subject in our previous article, CMS Comparison for Rails App, but this time I’ll go into more details and answer the following questions: ‘is Refinery worth using at all?’ and 'How can we compare it to the most popular competitors like WordPress, Joomla or Drupal?'

With access to Facebook, Instagram, and other social media apps, we can instantly share moments from our lives with our close ones. However, there are those unfamiliar with the latest technologies who get left behind. Neveo, a start-up founded by two young Belgian entrepreneurs, aims to change it and bridge the generation gap. Every month 20K people worldwide who are not familiar with the web or mobile apps receive a custom booklet with a selection of photos from their children or grandkids who don’t spend as much time with the family as they want to. And it happens with just a few clicks.

Ruby is a great language for web development – it’s already solid on its own, but gets even better with Ruby on Rails – a great framework that had a major influence on the way web apps are developed.  Still, life goes on and the whole tech industry keeps moving forward. New languages are invented, new frameworks are created and different architectures gain popularity. The Ruby community is looking towards Elixir, a language based on the Erlang VM – and the language that helped WhatsApp build their product. As an app owner you’re probably wondering which language to choose for your new project. This article will explain the pros and cons of both Ruby and Elixir.

Sustainable agriculture is a simple and pragmatic idea that there does not have to be a trade-off between agricultural productivity and environmental protection. The conventional approach, however, has been to view agricultural yields and environmental protection as some sort of a zero-sum game in which the latter was constantly out-prioritised by the former. As a result, we have only managed to exacerbate the already adverse environmental impact of agriculture in terms of groundwater depletion, water pollution from fertilizer runoffs, biodiversity loss, soil erosion, and high rates of greenhouse gas emissions.