Author:
Zac Stewart
We’re proud to announce that we’re hosting the Atlanta chapter of NASA’s International Space Apps Challenge. Space Apps is a chance for developers, designers, engineers, artists and tinkerers to team up and work on some of the exciting challenges published by NASA.…
Author:
Gregg Rothmeier
Ruby ships with an Interactive Ruby Shell (IRB) that every Ruby developer has played around with at some point. It’s a great place to experiment with unfamiliar methods and running bits of code, but if you really want to dig into an object or do hardcore debugging, it can leave a lot to be desired.…
Author:
Chris Kelly
Highgroove requires everyone to attend a conference every year, and begrudgingly I agreed to head to Hawaii for Aloha Ruby. The flight was long but well worth it, the weather was amazing, and the conference was packed with useful information.…
Author:
Gregg Rothmeier
Highgroovers take test-driven design (TDD) seriously, but it’s easy to become overwhelmed by the number of tools available for testing applications. However, if you know us even a little, you know that we have a lot of experience using different tools—and that we’ve developed some opinions about them.…
Author:
David Worth
At Highgroove, we love working with the community, whether it’s hosting hack nights, organizing ATLRUG, or contributing to open-source software. One of our key contributions involves auditing those ruby gems upon which we most rely, or the ones that present the most perceived risk.…
Author:
Jonathan Wallace
A long time has passed since we’ve last spoken about processing background jobs. Much has changed regarding the tools for asynchronously processing long running tasks in Ruby and Rails. Most recently we’ve favored Resque, especially now that Heroku’s cedar stack supports it.…
Author:
David Worth
For those following along at home, you know that we love to work iteratively, and as such, work towards our big-picture goals one small step at a time. We also take software quality seriously, and an important part of software quality, particularly when it comes to web applictations, is security.…
Author:
Gregg Rothmeier
Often times the state of an object is tracked through boolean attributes, but this solution doesn’t scale well since each new state requires a new column in the table along with logic to govern how the states change. If you have a model which you need to track the states of, the state_machine gem can be a great solution.…
Author:
David Worth
At Highgroove we love giving presentations. We sponsor the Atlanta Ruby Users Group (ATLRUG), we each attend at least one conference per year where we are highly encouraged to speak rather than simply attend, and we give weekly tech talks at the office.…
Author:
Aubrey Rhodes
Highgroove really likes Pry. It’s a great tool for digging into your code and seeing what’s going on with tons of great features. However, there are situations where using a standard binding.pry breakpoint will not block your program and allow you to inspect it.…
