While Google Glass is a Android device, you don’t need to be an Android developer to start to create apps for it. What is the Mirror API The Mirror API is a Google API based cloud service that hooks into…
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Getting Started With Google Glass Development Using Ruby, the Mirror API and Heroku
Posted in Development, Glass, Mobile, rails, ruby, Wearables Tagged with: Active Record, Google Glass, Heroku, Rails, Ruby, Wearables
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
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
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
Rubyconf Taiwan 2014 Recap
Last month I had the honor of being able to speak at Rubyconf Taiwan with a talk about Analytics for the Busy Ruby Developer. Rubyconf Taiwan is a two day, two track conference dedicated to all things Ruby that had…
Charming Large Databases with Octopuses
Ruby is often the language of choice for startups of smaller applications. It allows you to get an application going quickly. While there has been a lot of talk about NoSQL databases for many applications instead of a SQL database,…
Posted in Architecture, Database, Development, gems, rails, ruby, scaling, sql Tagged with: Active Record, ActiveRecord, Database, DBCharmer, MySQL, Octopus, Postgres, Rails, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Scaling, SQL
Rubyfuza 2014 Recap
Rubyfuza is Africa’s premier Ruby-language conference held each year in South Africa at the beginning of February. This year’s conference took place from 5 – 8 February at the Strand Hotel in beautiful Cape Town. Approximately 150 people, (many of…
Posted in Agile, Development, rails, ruby Tagged with: Agile, Conferences, Development, Rails, Ruby, South Africa
Skinny Models and Skinny Controllers with the state_machine gem
Recently we have been working on a project to create a payment system using Stripe. When you are processing payments you often have a process that goes through a number of steps. For example, if you are processing a payment…
Posted in Architecture, Development, rails, ruby, Stripe Tagged with: Development, Rails, Ruby, State Machine, Stripe