When you need to offer advanced search in your Ruby based application you have a number of options. People often will look at using a Lucene based solution such as Solr or Elasticsearch. The only problem is that you will…
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Amazon Cloudsearch With Ruby And Asari Moving Towards 1.0
Posted in Development, gems, rails, ruby, scaling Tagged with: Active Asari, Amazon, Asari, Cloud Search, Ruby, Scaling, Search
Are You Data Literate?
We live in a world where data has become more important than ever. In fact, the World Economic Forum calls data the new “It currency”, every bit as valuable as oil and gold. Yet, despite the fact that data has…
Posted in analytics, Architecture, Data Science, Database, Development, scaling, sql Tagged with: Analytics, Big Data, Data Literacy, Data Science
How Much Data Do You Really Need?
We live in a world where knowledge is believed to equal power. As a result, most of us abhor the uncertainty of not knowing. When we have questions, we want to turn to data – cold, hard facts — to…
Posted in analytics, Data Science, Database, Development, scaling Tagged with: Analytics, Big Data, Data Science
A Sane Oauth Federation Strategy With Doorkeeper in Ruby
There are a lot of articles out there about setting up one server with Doorkeeper to offer Oauth support in Ruby projects. But when you start to get into federating your Oauth credentials across services it turns into the wild…
Posted in Architecture, Development, gems, rails, ruby, scaling Tagged with: Doorkeeper, Oauth, Rails, Ruby, Scaling, Security
Before You Can Think Big Data, You Need to Think Big Clean!
“Big Data” and “data science” have become buzzwords and focus areas for many companies. However, the key to predictive analytics is not data size or more sophisticated tools; it’s clean data. Quality Matters In a previous post about the importance…
Posted in analytics, Data Science, Database, scaling Tagged with: Analytics, Data Science, Scaling, statistics
HTTParty Cookies and Devise
So you are working in Ruby, you like to party, you like HTTP and you like cookies. For many ruby developers the HTTParty is a great way to make http calls from your ruby code to a web service. When…
Posted in Architecture, Development, gems, rails, ruby, scaling Tagged with: Development, Devise, HTTParty, Oauth, Rails, Ruby
Using OmniAuth to Authenticate for Doorkeeper
In Ruby, if you want to set up a Oauth provider the Doorkeeper Gem is a popular solution. We had a application where we wanted to provide our end users with a oauth interface for our main authentication/authorization, but delegate…
Posted in Architecture, Development, rails, ruby, scaling Tagged with: Development, Doorkeeper, Oauth, Omniauth, Scaling, Service Oriented Architecture
Automating Your SOA Ruby Development Environment Using Foreman and Bash
The Monolithic App When you have one monolithic ruby stack, getting a developers machine to run the stack for smoke testing etc. is really easy. If the application is just Rails based without any background jobs you simply start up…
Posted in Agile, Architecture, Database, Development, gems, rails, ruby, scaling Tagged with: Agile, Architecture, bash, foreman, Rails, Ruby, Scaling
Analytics for the Busy Ruby Developer Slides are up!
Recently I gave a talk at Rubyconf Taiwan about Analytics in Ruby. Check out the slides below!
Posted in AngularJS, Database, Development, gems, Glass, Javascript, Mobile, rails, ruby, scaling Tagged with: Analytics, D3JS, Data Science, Dynamo DB, Mongo DB, Ruby, Rubyconf Taiwan, S3
Writing a Non-Gemified Strategy for OmniAuth
The OmniAuth gem tends to be one of the go-to tools in a Ruby developer’s toolbox when you want to authenticate against multiple systems. It has been around for a long time and is very well-documented. When you want to…
Posted in Development, gems, rails, rails, ruby, scaling Tagged with: Authentication, Gems, Omniauth, Ruby, Ruby Gems, Ruby on Rails, Security, Single Sign On, SSO