Ruby on Rails Social Network case study

Developer Bruce Tate goes through the technical hurdles and decision-making when it came time to build ChangingthePresent.org – a social network for good deeds. He goes over why he chose Rails, the agile environment, and some of the key database configurations he chose. Here’s an example:

“First, let’s get the basics out of the way. Rails is fundamentally a LAMP architecture, We deploy our site on Sun hardware, behind BigIP load balancers. Like many newer Rails sites, we chose Mongrel as our application server, a lighttpd derivative for static content, and MySQL. Our database is deployed in a master/master/slave configuration for fail over, performance, and scalability.”

Read the case study here.