Our Awesome Sponsors

Bytemark is the UK's smartest hosting company for builders and self-starters, established in 2002. It has its own data centre in York, another in Manchester, and its own cloud hosting platform called BigV (70,000 lines of Ruby). BigV lets developers scale to servers of up to 180GB of RAM, and to mix in dedicated servers for the most flexible hosting network. Bytemark can also take on active management of applications and clients, including all the fiddly stuff like backups, health monitoring and 24-hour response. Bytemark love Ruby, and are always interested in meeting programmers looking for a new challenge.

Born in Bath and built in Ruby, School Guide is the leading online school information site for parents and school data provider to Mumsnet. We take official statistics on 30,000 schools and make it quick and easy for parents to find the best school for their child. Unique star ratings, local league tables, a striking graphic UI and TripAdvisor-style parent reviews all combine to create an A* schools site for UK parents.

GoCardless is a London-based startup that makes it incredibly simple for anyone to take Direct Debit payments.
In just 3 years GoCardless has become the UK’s largest Direct Debit provider, processing millions of pounds every day. Last year we grew by over 700%, and we’re now expanding into Europe.

We've a Ruby/Rails stack and we’re hiring. If you’re passionate about tech, care deeply about learning and finding elegant solutions, and want to work with like-minded engineers, come work with us.

HitFox Group is an international company builder focused on building synergetic businesses in the fields of advertising, big data, and fintech. In order to accelerate our fast growth, we are committed to agile working processes and pragmatism. Our businesses are built with cloud services and modern technologies, e.g. Ruby on Rails. We are 300+ professionals of 45 nationalities headquartered in Berlin, with additional offices in San Francisco and Seoul. HitFox Group is founding 4-6 new companies every year and we are continuously looking for talented people who want to join our Fox team and build great companies together.

Storm builds Rails applications and web sites for some of the region’s best known and most inventive companies. Their multidisciplinary team of 10, based in Bath, specialise in taking new business ideas and successfully growing them online. Storm's client base extends from internationally renowned brands such as The Beano and Future Publishing through to local success stories such as CiteAb.com and CakeShop.com

Funding Circle is the leading marketplace for business loans, where people and organisations can directly lend to small businesses.
Helping the economy to grow, businesses can access fast, fair and transparent finance, and investors can earn attractive returns.

At Funding Circle, we are building a better financial world - helping small businesses to prosper by accessing finance directly from investors. The old banking system is broken, so we're building a better solution.

Lasse Ebert is a one-man freelancer company by Lasse Skindstad Ebert.
I build high quality web applications for startups and minor companies primarily based in Denmark.

I've been a Ruby developer for years, but I still get thrilled about Ruby every day. My work as a Ruby freelance developer would not have been possible without the kind and open community and the eager individuals that spend time and money to spread the wisdom of Ruby.

My interest as a sponsor of Bath Ruby is solely to give back to the Ruby community.

The only email you will be glad to receive.

We are working on a new service for tech teams that aggregates data from your external services, and emails your team a daily digest of your projects' activity. Currently we integrate with Github, Pivotal Tracker, Codeship, Airbrake, Bugsnag and emails, and more are on the way.

We will be live in early 2015, but if you are interested you can contact us at hello@digestive.io or @digestiveapp.

Whether you're looking for a new employee or employer, you'll want to avoid the headache of using agencies who simply don't understand your needs. At Novate we offer a refreshing approach to recruitment, ensuring candidates and clients are dealt with professionally and honestly, ensuring only the right people are put forward for the right job at the right time.

Cronofy provides a unified calendar API to allow application developers to integrate their apps and services with Google, Apple, Exchange and many other calendar services.

With Cronofy, developers don’t have to worry which calendar service their customers have chosen. They can just focus on leveraging the rich, two-way calendar interaction provided to augment their service and embed their offering deep within their customers’ lives.

Our engineering team builds a platform that connects companies and investors with experts worldwide. Founded in 2008 in London, we now have offices in New York, Hong Kong and Dubai.

We're looking for smart people to join our Rails and Ember teams. If you value code quality and continuous learning, we'll be a good fit for you.

You can find out more about us at http://engineering.alphasights.com

Third Space Learning is a London-based Ed Tech startup with big ambitions. We use technology to connect teachers from around the world to children in schools across England, helping to address social and academic failure.

Our entire stack runs Ruby on Rails, hosted on AWS. We're fans of TDD, SASS, micro-services, scalability, VoIP, Javascript, and other shiny stuff. Plus - we're hiring! If you're a developer that wants to make an positive social impact in education technology (that's Series A funded!) then get in touch!

We build cool web and mobile products for startups and large companies alike, as well as creating SaaS-based products of our own.

We love what we do and hold regular hack nights with sponsors like TokBox and Pusher, and do what we can to help educate others, including organising the Bristol leg of Rails Girls.

While we consider ourselves to be technology agnostic (we don’t use tech for the sake of it), we like to stay at the cutting edge meaning we can create beautiful, high-tech products that work well every time.