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

• Nginx
• Mongrel (actually, a cluster of mongrels)
• Ruby on Rails
• PostgreSQL

We use a number of Rails plugins:

• acts_as_taggable_on_steroids
• acts_as_versioned
• attachment_fu
• calendar_helper
• exception_notification
• gibberish
• rails_rcov
• tzinfo_timezone
• tztime
• white_list
• will_paginate
• ym4r_gm

We also use a few gems:

• ar_mailer
• hpricot
• image_science
• rcov
• redcloth
• tzinfo

We make use of some nifty javascript libraries:

• accordion
• script.aculo.us

And we use these indispensable development/deployment tools:

• Textmate
• Subversion
• Capistrano

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.)

Created: 28 January 2008 - 17:10
Last updated: 24 February 2008 - 17:24

Comments

2008-02-13 10:26:01 -0800, 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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