The UK's Ruby on Rails specialists

New Bamboo is a specialist in bespoke software development using Ruby on Rails. Our range of experience covers social networks, complex e-commerce solutions and project management and business collaboration tools for organisations.

We offer a highly skilled technical team that has been programming with Ruby on Rails since its conception in 2004. We use an agile methodology which is particularly suited for complex projects and is based around objective metrics, stakeholder involvement, feedback, and managed processes.

We are a true innovator in our field with a proven track record - and our people are passionate about delivering creative solutions.

Our Agile methodology

In traditional software projects, much time is spent on building requirement documents and the application is then built on top of this plan. If requirements are left out of the start up phase they are generally picked up late in the process, by which point they may be awkward and costly to implement.

Agile methodology acknowledges that the most useful features of an application are often only discovered by using what already exists, and thus delivers working software to the client at regular intervals. This means that in each iteration meeting, a certain level of QA is carried out by the people who will ultimately be using the application. This approach encourages greater collaboration and ownership of key stakeholders and removes unwanted layers of inefficiency. It also provides project managers visibility of the development cycle without over loading on information.

Social networking sites sustaining vibrant communities

New Bamboo are well known for delivering innovative and unique social networking applications. We work in close collaboration with our clients to deliver solutions which are a true realisation of their concepts. We take the time to fully understand our clients' vision, and build social networking solutions which will nurture their community.

As experienced architects of social networking solutions, we have a collection of modules which form groundwork for our solutions. Hiro is the name of our core social networking engine. It contains around a dozen core modules which form the basis of most social networks. By utilising this codebase, we are able to provide a more rapid development cycle and ultimately a faster time to market for our clients.