Blogs from the Ranch Back-End

Getting Started with Testing: Unit Testing or BDD with Rspec

If you’re just getting started with testing (and general test-first or test-driven development) in your Ruby and Ruby on Rails applications, you have a...

Highgroove featured on the Ruby on Rails Podcast

We recently sat down with Geoffrey Grosenbach for the Ruby on Rails Podcast and talked about Scout, PlaceShout, working as a remote team, and...

Hands on with Scout at Atlanta Ruby User Group

Last night, I demoed Scout to a room-full of Rubyists at the Atlanta Ruby User Group Meeting.

Lessons from the Trenches at Acts As Conference

For those who missed my talk at the most excellent Acts As Conference put on by the good folks at Rails For All in...

Auto-Login for Any URL in Rails

One of our current projects at Highgroove sends a lot of email to its users. It essentially walks them through a process and...

See PlaceShout, Other New Apps at SF Beta Tonight

Andre and I will be at SF Beta tonight demoing PlaceShout, our short-form local reviews service.

The Rails Way by Obie Fernandez

We Love Open Source

I had an unusual Christmas Eve. While my wife was entertaining the family, I was in my office programming until nearly midnight. (Have...

Be smart about your technical debt

Much of what Rails provides to get your apps up and running isn’t optimized for performance. It’s crafted to be more efficient for developers,...

Highgroove Studios at acts_as_conference Feb 8-9

Just a quick note that I’ll be speaking on “Lessons from the Trenches “ Learning from the Rails Bootcamp at the regional Ruby on...

When not to use technology

As technologists and especially programmers we are always expected to automate as much of any process as we can. In general, this is...

Facebookin’ with Ruby on Rails

Andre and I recently finished the initial launch of Placeshout’s Facebook application. There are several “getting started” tutorials available on building Facebook applications with...