Author:
Stafford Brooke
There are many options for Ruby on Rails hosting, but Heroku is one that we recommend to clients and use internally for Ruby on Rails applications. Using Heroku? There are steps you can take to get more performance out of your Heroku application.…
Author:
David Worth
Occasionally in the life-cycle of an application we find that we need two distinct domain objects to quack alike, even if their underlying structures differ greatly. Moreover, often the second, third and thirty-ninth such objects come long after the initital object entered the application.…
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:
David Worth
I’ve written before about Highgroove’s “any conference you want, every year, on us” policy. This year, I chose to attend two events, with a cycling adventure between.
ArrrrCamp
When I originally intended to attend ArrrrCamp’12, I planned to go as a participant.…
Author:
Andy Lindeman
Rails 4.0 has yet to be released, but since it might be here by Christmas, it’s time to start getting ready.
Some Rails 4.0 features can be used today, and I describe how in the whirlwind tour I recently put together for the Atlanta Ruby Users Group.…
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:
Zac Stewart
Requiring a would-be user to go through a sign-up process can often be too much to ask. Instead of jumping through your hoops, many people will just hit the ‘back’ button and continue browsing Reddit without ever discovering how cool your app is.…
Author:
Jon Woodroof
All of the non-developer employees here at Highgroove recently spent a day with Andrew Fuqua for a hands-on agile training, where he took us on a quick tour of a full iterative project. We planned a project and learned to create measurable steps toward our goals.…
Author:
Pamela Overman Vickers
Last weekend, I participated in Rails Girls, an event that introduces women to development in Ruby on Rails. This particular event was held in Washington D.C., a hotbed for the tech industry.
As a Rails Girls DC coach, I cheered on the girls as they worked through building a web application, and lent a hand when a little help was needed.…
Author:
Patrick Van Stee
Our clients increasingly need features that rely on file uploads. In the past, we would typically use your average multi-part form with a file input and post the data to our servers. Once the file was done uploading, we would then turn around and push it to a cloud storage service.…
