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We were looking for a way to create simple invoices using a “print merge” approach that wouldn’t require offline software. We wanted a solution on the cloud, free, compatible with Google Drive and possibly open source.…

Years ago I was amused by Heroku giving the possibility to do development inside a web IDE. That product was called Heroku Garden but it was discontinued and Heroku focused only on easing the deployment of web apps.…

Rails 4 brings many cool new features like Turbolinks and Strong Parameters. We already used these gems and as soon as Rails 4 has been released we created a starter app that includes Twitter Bootstrap, Font Awesome and some other defaults like Rspec and HAML.…

We needed a way to add likes to stories for Minstrels. We started looking for gems that provide this functionality and we found tombell/mongoid-voteable, that does a little more by providing a voting system to mongoid models. So we decided to fork this gem and focus only on likes. Today we gave it back to the open source community.…

We are passionate about the Sharing Economy and we are glad to present icare, an open source carpooling platform based on the technology stack of Minstrels.…