Blogs from the Ranch Back-End

Hack Night at Highgroove

Highgroove hosted our monthly Hack Night, and with 20 attendees, this was our largest yet.

Git Treeishes Considered Awesome

Using Block Scope for a Fancy DSL

In Ruby, blocks are kind of a big deal. We use them for everything from basic iteration to executing callbacks. They are also really...

Using Rails localization outside of your views

When I went to Europe for the first time, first to England and then to France, I was deeply obsessed with track cycling. ...

Refactoring Regular Expressions with Ruby 1.9 Named Captures

Lessons Learned at Global Day of Coderetreat

In case you missed it, the awesome Globay Day of Coderetreat occurred on December 3rd. The amount of fun I experienced was unexpected...

Fake It

One of the more complicated Ruby/Rails projects we work with at Highgroove has many points where it interacts directly with the filesystem.

Don't Settle on Just One Test Framework!

At Highgroove Studios, we’re hyperspecialists in Ruby on Rails web application development. Not only do we write amazingly complicated code on time and...

Classifying Data with Discriminant Analysis

Debugging Best Practices

At rubyhoedown, the inimitable Jim Weirich gave an awesome presentation on using the debugger in ruby. Before his new found respect for the...

Combining Many Customer Databases into One

Using Active Shipping for Shipping Rate Estimates

Active Shipping is a nifty Shipping API extension for Active Merchant. It provides methods for interacting with common shipping carrier APIs. Recently we used...