One of the select developers with commit access to Ruby itself, the author of Best of Ruby Quiz and TextMate: Power Editing for the Mac (a popular editor used for Ruby), and a contributing author to the Ruby Cookbook, James Edward Gray II is Highgroove's resident code ninja. He spends work hours designing and implementing complex database layers and his free time engrossed in technical manuals, because he has a warped sense of fun.

James has been very active in the online Ruby community over the years writing open source libraries (one that recently became a standard Ruby library), running the popular Ruby Quiz contest for three full years, and writing books about the language. Recently James has been giving speeches at Ruby conferences, mostly about his favorite TV shows.

When James isn't speaking to machines in code, he prefers to be talking with his wonderful wife Dana and their two children (a Shih Tzu and her Siamese playmate) or playing a little chess.