Hello. We solve real problems with beautiful code & teaching. We are Collective Idea.
We are a small, agile software-development team driven to find solutions beyond code. Our code is great, and we’ll never denigrate it, but we understand code is a tactic toward a solution rather than a solution in itself. End result: we make our clients more productive and their processes more efficient.
Recent Blog Posts
Testing File Downloads with Capybara and ChromeDriver
At Collective Idea, we ♥ Cucumber, Capybara and ChromeDriver… and alliteration. But we recently encountered an issue with a very Ajaxy Rails app where we need to test a file download and assert its content.
Standalone Javascript Routing
A recent project has us using spine.js as well as a few other JavaScript libraries. Though spine.js comes with its own routing, it conflicts with pjax. The solution was to roll our own.
Recent Work
Paper Hat Press
Creating beautiful customized children’s books, Paper Hat Press has taken on-demand publishing to the next level. We helped launch and grow the site’s capacity, increase conversions and improve the publishing process.