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
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
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
Making It Easy For Users To Do The Right Thing
Last night after the Atlanta JavaScript meetup, Toby Ho and I had a discussion about how deployment techniques have changed. He lamented on how many newbies and inexperienced users refer to Git in the same way they would have referred…
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