Blogs from the Ranch Back-End

my second annual ruby conf report

RubyConf, ahhh RubyConf.

Map Reduce Jobs in Ruby with Wukong

Email Marketing for your Rails App Made Easy With Mailchimp

Scaling Searching

Search is a hard problem, thankfully a lot of really smart people have spent a lot of time on it and come up with...

Factories with Realistic Data

Here at Highgroove we often use the popular Factory Girl gem in our tests.

The Community is the Documentation, so are Highgroovers

Before getting the opportunity to work with the Highgroove team I spent considerable time checking out their website. It might have been embarrassing...

Gems I Could Not Live Without

Ruby on Rails is an open source, free framework for rapidly prototyping and developing robust, scalable web applications. Ruby on Rails is excellent all...

Yet Another Benefit of Open Source

Bayesian networks have proven extremely useful for classifying events and documents, reliability analysis, and in many other fields. Essentially, wherever a well-defined chain of...

XMPP the Ruby Way

If you’ve ever tried to integrate Jabber into your app or just wanted to write a bot to respond with TWSS jokes, you’ve probably...

Introducing Setler for Feature Flags

Feature Flags are one of my favorite patterns. Ross at Flickr blogged a pretty good description on the Flickr Code blog in 2009,...

Highgroove Hack Night

Like many software professionals, developers at Highgroove tend to code a lot outside of the work we do for our clients. In fact, Highgroove...

The Value of Reading Code

Here at Highgroove, we do code reviews, which ensures everyone is reading some code on a regular basis. However, being a developer usually means...