At Gojee, we are running Rails 3.0.7.  Recently, we’ve been experimenting with the Sprockets, Coffeescript, and Sass.

With tonight’s release of 3.1.0.  All of our experimentation will soon become fully compatible with mainstream Rails, since 3.1.0 comes with default support for JQuery, Sprockets, Coffeescript and Sass.

I also found the following updates to 3.1.0 awesome [...]

Over the past few weeks, we kept on having emails sent to us about how Gojee’s password reset was broken.  We kept on trying it on our side and couldn’t replicate the problem.  So we assumed that it was due to some peculiarity in those users’ environments.  (Except.. of course it wasn’t and was due [...]

To test “hover” state in cucumber, we were previously using “When I click an <element>”, but then we made clicking and hover have different behaviors and that broke a bunch of tests.

After some unfruitful searches, I found the .mouseover() event in Jquery, and came up with the follow step for testing mouseover events.

When [...]

After 8 weeks of development, we finally started writing tests for Gojee 3.0 this week!

It took us this long because we weren’t sure what features would stick around.  3.0 is a completely different experience than the previous site, and we literally wrote all of the code from the ground up (… or at least [...]

Every week, each Gojee engineer takes a cursory look at a technology they’ve not used before.  We give ourselves only 1 hour of time for the evaluation.  The idea is to learn just enough to start having a point of view on how, where, and when the technology could be fit into our stack.  On [...]

Twitter offers multiple APIs that enables websites, mobile, and desktop applications to leverage Twitter’s infrastructure.

The REST API allows applications to act on behave of Twitter users.  Performing actions such as: Logging in as a Twitter user (via OAuth) Following other Twitter users Retrieve trends Saved searches List subscribers Retrieve tweets In order to perform these actions.  Applications simply make a request to [...]

At Gojee, I do a weekly evaluation of a technology that we can potentially leverage.  This week I evaluated the Facebook API.

Graph API (Retrieve Facebook Data for Gojee Use)

The Graph API allows easy access all public information about an object. For example,https://graph.facebook.com/btaylor returns all the public information about Bret. For example [...]

At Gojee, I evaluate an existing technology for its potential use with our platform.  This week, I gave an initial look at MongoDB.

MongoDB is a document-based, key-value database.  Unlike traditional SQL, there are no tables in MongoDB.  Instead, data is stored as document rows.  Each row doesn’t necessarily have to have the same fields, make a [...]