Developing my current project with CouchDB, I was faced with the decision on tools for full text search.
CouchDB and Lucene seemed to a natural fit and I decided to persue that path. I have not regretted it yet, so I thought I would share a little introduction with you.
Add comment April 2nd, 2010
In today’s talk at the Ruby Users Group Berlin (RUG-B) I gave an introduction to Amazon SimpleDB focusing on how to connect it to Ruby on Rails via the ActiveResource framework and my AWS SDB Proxy Server Plugin.
The vision of eventually forming a truly scalable deployment architecture using Amazons EC2, S3, SQS and SimpleDB web services together, triggered a very vivid discussion.
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Add comment February 8th, 2008
The Ext JS framework got a lot of attention lately as it offers very sophisticated GUI components for web application development. But how does Ext play along with Ruby on Rails, everybody’s favorite development framework?
There is not a lot of documentation around, though some people seem to be using the combo quite successfully (if you take job posts looking for Rails and Ext skills into account).
Googling reveals some Rails plugins aiming at Ext integration, but a closer look exposes them as mostly “vaporware”, abandoned experiments or as not being actively developed.
For my talk on Ext at the Berlin Ruby Users Group, I decided to roll my own. The presentation focuses on Rails scaffolding as a good starting point for playing with Ext. The biggest integration task from a Rails point of view is providing the correct JSON data structures that Ext can process - a task that can be solved in a re-usable way. Passing data around between Rails controllers and views and the actual JavaScript code is another focal point. Download the complete set of slides here.
The presentation features a preview version of my Ext Scaffold Generator, soon to be announced as a official Rails plugin.
[Edit by martin.rehfeld]: The Ext Scaffold Generator has been officially released on 18th January 2008, check out the details.
12 comments January 8th, 2008
Good to hear that Ext JS, the high level Javascript framework for rich GUI development is getting its well-deserved attention.
That also makes my time feel well spent on that talk about Ext JS with Rails on 10th January 2008, I’m currently preparing for the Berlin Ruby User Group (RUG-B).
Add comment December 17th, 2007
At yesterday’s meeting of the Berlin Ruby Users Group my fellow rubyist Adam Groves and I shared our thoughts on how to utilize Amazons EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) web service for hosting applications, especially with Ruby on Rails in mind. A major issue is the non persistence of local storage in the EC2 environment. We outlined several approaches on how to possibly solve this issue, minimizing potential data loss.
Download the complete set of slides here.
For further questions or comments, just drop me a line at martin.rehfeld@glnetworks.de.
1 comment April 6th, 2007
