We make web applications.
Base Secrète is a two-person product design and Ruby on Rails team in Geneva, Switzerland.
We build our own products, and partner with clients who care as much about design as they do about the code.
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Le Temps
We’ve designed and built the new Le Temps website, and migrated it to the Ruby on Rails publication platform we built for Heidi.news. A single codebase now powers four media websites, including Geneva Solutions and Kometa.
Sidekiq
We’ve redesigned Sidekiq 8, Ruby’s best-known background jobs system, using modern vanilla CSS to replace Bootstrap, resulting in a nicer, more accessible experience and a 10x reduction in file size.
RubyRubyRubyRuby.dev
RubyRubyRubyRuby offers clearer documentation for Ruby, Rails, and selected Ruby gems. It uses RDoc, the venerable Ruby documentation generator, and a custom theme built to enhance reading comfort and navigation.
Heidi.news
The prestigious journalists at Heidi.news asked us to rescue their Rails application and launch their ambitious news platform.
Two years later, they were acquired by Le Temps, one of Switzerland’s leading newspapers. We continue to advise them and develop their website.
Sqily.com
For HEP Vaud, we built a communication and skills-validation platform for schools.
Sqily is used in teacher training and in compulsory education across Switzerland.
Open Source
We rely on open source every day: Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, and countless libraries. We share our own tools in return.
github.com/BaseSecreteA Ruby gem that can be used without a rorvswild.com account to measure request performance in development.
A Sinatra app that displays monitoring data for your Redis servers. Use it standalone or embed it in a Rails application.
A simple Pomodoro clock for teams. Teamodoro helps improve your team productivity and reduce interruptions.
A Ruby gem to encrypt the attributes of a Ruby object or an ActiveRecord model. Secure Attribute protects sensitive data, such as API secrets, OAuth tokens, or passwords.
A Ruby gem to create domains based on your ActiveRecord models’ column types. Type Scopes manages dates, times, strings, and numbers.
A UI library in CSS and JavaScript, that encourages writing more accessible HTML markup.
First-party, privacy-focused traffic analytics for Ruby on Rails applications. Learn more →
Active Hashcash protects your Rails forms against bots and DoS attacks. Learn more →
web + design + code
We take on full projects or focused engagements, and commit for the long term. We sometimes work alongside other agencies and developers.
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