Y Factorial - iPhone and Web Apps

eQuest, Inc.

eQuest, the world’s leading job posting distributor, contacted Y Factorial to build out its third generation job tracking platform.

The result, Prophesy3 is the ultimate job board analytics tool - the first metrics system of its kind - enabling companies to evaluate job board performance beginning from the candidates initial view at the board all the way down to the hire.

eQuest’s vision and Y Factorial’s technical excellence resulted in the Prophesy3 platform being awarded the HR Top 10 Product of the Year Award for 2008.

Technologies Used for eQuest, Inc.

• Merb
• Ruby on Rails
• Sequel ORM
• amCharts (Flash charts)
• Google Maps
• PostgresQL Materialized Views

eXtension.org

eXtension.org contracted Y Factorial to perform a performance and Rails-upgrade analysis on its main web property, the eXtension.org public site.  Working with eXtension.org, Y Factorial upgraded the legacy code base to the Rails 2.1 release, the most current stable release at the time, and made several incremental improvements as a result of its application analysis.

Technologies Used for eXtension.org

• Ruby on Rails
• OpenId identity support
• Capistrano

eXtension.org News

eXtension is an educational partnership of more than 70 universities tasked with making objective, research-based information and educational opportunities available to the public.  eXtension contracted Y Factorial to design and implement a news-aggregation site capable of pulling information from various atom-enabled news feeds and wrapping community-enhancing functionality such as user tagging and article voting around these aggregated articles.

Technologies Used for eXtension.org News

• Ruby on Rails
• OpenID identity
• Atom feed support

FivePoints Solutions

FivePoints Solutions is an early stage startup building a family-friendly membership management application.  Y Factorial provided initial architectural and organizational guidance and on-site coaching services in the development of MemberHub and facilitated the transition and procurement of a permanent development team.

Technologies Used for FivePoints Solutions

• Ruby on Rails
• RSpec, Test::Unit
• Ruby coaching & mentoring

ChroniQL

ChroniQL is currently developing a “funware application that combines the best of social online games with digital photography to maximize fun, stickiness and virtual item revenue” which needed a messaging solution to serve at the core of their scalable multimedia system.  Y Factorial developed a RESTful message broker web-service written in Ruby on Rails along with ActiveResource-based client libraries to fill this need - allowing ChroniQL to utilize in-house knowledge of Rails application management while still introducing an asynchronous messaging component.

rmbr has recently been featured in several articles including the Wall Street Journal, Business Week and the USA Today.

Technologies Used for ChroniQL

• Ruby on Rails
• ActiveResource
• Ruby on Rails plugins