Ooochie: A Ruby Developer’s Journal

My last few months have been dedicated to the development of Boost's new online survey tool, SonarHQ. This past week, we released SonarHQ into Beta, and its live for you to use! It's exciting to see it out in the wild... we hope you enjoy it! We'd love to hear your feedback so check it out and let us know what you think. Here's a bit more information about SonarHQ:

What SonarHQ Does

The Tech Specs

SonarHQ is a Ruby on Rails application. It's currently running Rails v2.2 on a SliceHost Ubuntu server. We're using Workling/Starling for background processes and we've rolled our own flash graphs for charting poll results. The app is (mostly) RESTful and we're leveraging that fact in order to create reports for ourselves via ActiveResource. We're using Chartbeat and New Relic to monitor the application and we've got a Tender app set up for support.

So that's about it. Go take a little looksie and then sign up! Play around and be sure to let us know what you think. :)

I wrote recently about leaving Integrum, but I failed to mention that I was also leaving the country... :)

I decided a few months back that I wanted to live and work abroad for a few months, and after some searching around, I chose New Zealand. It's weird that it has finally arrived, but I am happy to say that I've just moved in to a flat in Wellington. I've never been to the South Pacific before, so I'm excited about the opportunity to see this part of the world. So far Wellington has been amazing! The city is so pretty and I love being close to the water. Our flatmates are super nice and have been very helpful in getting us settled in.

Tomorrow I start my new job at Boost New Media in downtown Wellington. I met the team on Friday, and they seem like such a fun bunch! I definitely want to check out the local rails scene and meet lots of people, so please get in touch if you are in the area. Oh, and if you need design stuff done, Dan is available and looking for contract work. :)

See you around Wellington!