Optimistic Locking with MongoDB
Back-End Front-EndAt Highgroove, we build database-backed web applications. These days, there are many options when choosing a database backend. We normally start with relational database...
A SQL Pattern in Rails
Back-End Front-EndActiveRecord is wonderful for the easy queries. But there are times, in the name of performance, when one must bust through the ORM...
RSpec Tip: let and nested describe/context blocks
Back-End Front-EndAt Highgroove, we test our code extensively. The best testing code has solid coverage, yet also shares many of the qualities of well-written...
The Impact of Performance Tools on Performance -OR- Use Your Environments!
Back-End Front-EndUsing different ‘environments’ in Ruby on Rails development is an established best practice. Rails provides you with 3 default ones: Production, Development,...
Dirty Forms
Back-End Front-EndWhen building fancy AJAXy apps that have complex user flows outside of page navigation, it’s important to let users know if they are about...
Introduction to Solr and Sunspot
Back-End Front-EndHe may be too humble* to admit it, but Andy Lindeman, one of our new(er) hires, is awesome.
CodeConf Recap
Back-End Front-EndApril 9th and 10th in San Francisco was the first ever CodeConf. Read on for a recap on this incredibly insightful and wonderful conference.
Open Source at Highgroove Studios: We're A Rails Shop
Back-End Front-EndVirtually every application we push to production relies very heavily on open source code in one way or another. This means we’re utilizing the...
Code Coverage and Ruby 1.9
Back-End Front-EndBug-free code is hard to come by, but we strive to do the best we can. The most important part of this is automated...
Have a Magical Conference!
Back-End Front-EndIf I simply wanted to learn the basics of Cucumber, RGeo, TorqueBox, or any number of other interesting open-source Ruby technologies, I could sit...
Ruby 1.9.2 Fresh from the Oven or Bootstrap Chef with ruby 1.9.2 and ubuntu 10.10
Back-End Front-EndHighgroovers. Flexible, self-starting, curious, good, nerdy, professional. These are a few of the words we used to describe ourselves in our annual 2010...
ZOMG ROFLscale Rubyconf OR Why you missed out.
Back-End Front-EndWe’re still recovering from RubyConf (specifically the 10k, Jonathan’s first ever, has yet to release its iron grip on his calves), but we have...
