Cedarcode

Rails engineers who join the product team

Cedarcode is a Ruby on Rails development company that describes its offer as committed development teams that feel in-house. Rather than delivering a finished project and leaving, it places full-stack engineers inside a client's product effort and has them build as insiders. Its long-term partners, the company says, tell it that the engineers feel like members of their own staff. It serves startups and larger firms that must grow fast while keeping quality up.

Experience and working style

The team reports about 15 years of combined depth in the web ecosystem, with a focus on Ruby and Rails. It describes a value-driven approach and an empathetic view of the client's users, aiming to turn clients into long-term partners and show that bringing in outside help can work well. Reviews quoted on its site, which come from a mix of clients including a very large US company, speak of engineers who take ownership, ask questions about the product and fit into existing teams. The company is small and says it prefers quality over headcount.

Work on inherited and growing products

Examples on the site include taking over a customized supplier onboarding forms application and developing later versions of it, and supplying remote contractors who joined an existing team and contributed from the first days.

Using AI with care

Under the heading Human Touch, AI Edge, Cedarcode says AI makes its engineers more productive and that it uses the tools in a mindful way. It also says it can integrate AI features into a client's product to produce business impact, as it is doing with some current partners.

Giving back to Rails

The company stays active in open source and has contributed to its own and to external projects, and it sponsors events. It joined the Rails Foundation and says it became the foundation's first Contributing Member, believing the foundation will help the Rails ecosystem stay strong.