how we did ror in wakoopa
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A presentation I gave on http://2007.rubyenrails.nl about how we did Rails in Wakoopa (http://wakoopa.com/)TRANSCRIPT
Robert Gaal
“What do you use?”Social network for software
How?
1.Install a tracker
2.Check out your profile
3.Share your experiences
4.Get updated
5.Discover new things
6.→ Go to 2
So...?
•Over 6.000 users the first month
•9.4 million hours of software usage
•Digged, TechCrunched, newspapered, etc.
•Nominated for Businessweek’s Europe's Young Entrepreneurs 2007
•Our moms like it (because it’s ours)
•Our friends love it (because they’re nerds)
RubyOnRails“The geek equivalent of writing poetry”
No guarantees!We’re helpless geeks, but we’re not perfect
... that’s why we have Bradley
Rails Machine = developer nirvana
•Staging (the sandbox / kitchen)
•Database (the pwner)
•Production (the butler)
Three musketeers
Textmate & EGreatest. Tools. Ever.
SVN, Capistrano & Trac
The holy trinity of deployment and maintenance
Pingdom, Mailroom & Clicky
A webapp a day, keeps the pain away
Caching, caching, caching:expire for the win!
Request queueDon’t choke Mongrel (even if you want to)
Asset packagerSquish it baby
Image serverDon’t bother Mongrel with the statics
Slow query logCheck them indexes and bypass ActiveRecord
When all fails: