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Techie Info About This Site

Discussion about the technologies running here — for bitheads only.

This site is a first experiment with a bunch of really cool technologies. Here is the stack:

We use a number of Rails plugins:

We also use a few gems:

We make use of some nifty javascript libraries:

And we use these indispensable development/deployment tools:

This was our first bash at a Rails application, though we’ve been working on community web sites for a number of years using the original toolkit OpenACS. Ruby on Rails is truly eye-opening. Ruby is a wonderful object-oriented language, and Rails is a brilliantly thought-out framework. We’ll never go back to tcl.

(And for those who really need to get a life and aren’t bothered by the superficiality of this metric, the code:test ratio for this app is 1:1.3; the nifty tools for writing tests for Rails make it hard not to test.)

Comments

Wed, 13 Feb 2008, 10:26am, RandyZ said:

Wow! I’m going to ask you to explain Ruby on Rails at our next work party. Such great names.

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