Blog · a series
Across Rutba
The things that are true on every Rutba site at once: one sign-in for all of them, a reference on every page that tells support exactly what you are looking at, and a page for every app drawn from the app itself.
3 parts · about 9 minutes to read them all
Part 1 · 3 min read
One sign-in for every Rutba site, and why it asks for your address first
Six Rutba sites used to disagree about whether you were signed in, and two of them collected passwords of their own. Now there is one front door. It asks who you are before it asks for a password — because it may not be the one that should check it.
Part 2 · 3 min read
Every Rutba page can tell you which page it is
"The login page is broken" describes several pages on several deployments. So every page now ends with a short reference — which deployment, which page, which build and which visit — that a screenshot is enough to trace, and that never carries your data.
Part 3 · 3 min read
A page for every Rutba app, drawn from the app itself
A product page named its apps in a sentence each, which cannot tell you whether a till handles returns. Forty apps now have a page of their own, listing every screen in them — read from each app’s own menu — with screenshots of it running.
