Summary

Welcome to MarsBased! This is the first thing you should read when boarding the MarsBased spaceship.

MarsBased is an all-remote development consultancy from Barcelona, building web and mobile products using Ruby on Rails, Python and JavaScript. We work at the intersection of business and technology, to help companies with their innovation projects using bleeding-edge technologies like AR/VR and AI.

Here you will find the most important information about the company to help you to get familiar with it. We also compiled some of our guides & interesting stuff you should read (and some trivia & fun stories to make it more digestible).

If you're a visitor and want to use them, feel free to use them anywhere, but we'd appreciate it that you linked us back in appreciation.

We have decided to make this handbook publicly available so we can share as much as we can with other companies out there, potential candidates and prospective clients alike. Everyone is welcome!

Sections

1. First day at MarsBased

2. Company culture

3. What influenced us

4. What we do

5. Project types

6. Current projects

7. How we work

8. Who is who

9. Development

10. Our rituals

11. Talks & Podcasts

12. Benefits & Perks

13. Holidays, Time off & Paid leave

14. Travel policy

15. Buddy System

16. Careers at MarsBased

17. Become a Martian

Our guides

For now, we have the following resources available:

1. Branding guidelines

2. Project management guidelines

3. Linear guidelines

4. Calendar, Slack & Linear working hours and status guidelines

5. File storage, permissions & security

6. Prompt engineering basics

7. Our SEO guidelines for new projects

8. Our blogging guide

9. How to write a damn good blog post

Our development guides

1. Security guidelines

2. Our Rails ActiveRecord guide

3. Our Docker guides

4. Our Git & Commit guidelines

5. Some of our used programming patterns

6. Angular guidelines

7. Angular 17 guidelines

8. React guidelines

9. Back-end guidelines

10. Code reviews guidelines

11. Coding guidelines

12. Ruby & Rails guidelines

13. WIP: Testing guidelines

Other useful resources

1. MarsBased website

2. MarsBased blog

3. Life on Mars - The MarsBased Podcast, English Edition

4. Life on Mars - The MarsBased Podcast, Spanish Edition

5. MarsBased newsletter

6. MarsBased YouTube channel

Contributing

We encourage you to contribute! Please check out the Contributing guides for guidelines about how to proceed.