EuRuKo (European Ruby Conference) is an annual conference about Ruby, a programming language upon which skroutz.gr is built. Since Euruko 2013 is taking place in Athens, we were more than excited to contribute to the event organisation. The concept of the logo design One of the first steps ne...
This year, Skroutz sent a bunch of developers to attend the Barcelona Ruby Conference. The presentations on Baruco ranged from running a business and programming methodologies down to tracing and debugging code and the very internals of Ruby itself. The way we work Scott Chacon reminded us tha...
Why send newsletters? Well, this is common sense. Customers are the most valuable resource you have and once in a while, you need to remind them how thankful you are for this deal. Besides newsletters introducing new features, updates etc, sending detailed information about their last month or w...
Target: remove the :controller/:action(/:id) routes from config/route.rb. Problem: make sure we have complete route coverage. Well, the problem can be solved in two ways: Go into every controller and translate each action to a routing spec. Parse last week's logs and check whether each url is...
Last year our team almost tripled in size. We went from 6 people to 15 people including developers, designers and devops. While it was great to see the team grow we faced problems we never had as a small team. The whole team is working on a single project (Skroutz) so partitioning the workload v...
Pattern from the French patron, is a type of theme of recurring events or objects, sometimes referred to as elements of a set of objects. The last version of Skroutz.gr heralded a very clean cut for us in terms of design approach and level of refinment. We did have a thorough upfront design p...
Let's begin with some numbers about skroutz.gr: app/ 21k+ lines of code lib/ 15k+ lines of code about 380 classes spec/ 38k+ lines of code in ~350 files 6k+ spec examples takes about 7 minutes to run all specs 7 minutes is a LOT of time to wait before you merge and push your experimental fea...
We long wanted to redesign our office space. After 2 months it's ready and we'are really happy with the result. The goal was to have a clean, fun and usable space to work. Kudos to Kyriakos and DesignTeam for the office design, and to Alexia for the abstract design work. See the photos below fo...
Slides from the presentation we gave at the 5th Athens Ruby Meetup @ ColabAthens
I saw this nice post from the stack exchange people about their architecture in bullet points and I thought I should write a similar one for skroutz. This includes Skroutz.gr only, not sister sites (like Gameover.gr, Skroutzstore.gr, Soby.gr etc) Traffic 31M pageviews per month 400 - 450 HTTP ...