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Dheeraj Kumar
On Saturday 22 September 2012 at 2:15 AM, Jammer Jamski wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I''ve arrived at the door of Ruby! I''m a complete noob to
Ruby and RoR
> and looking for some high level advice on things to look at.
>
> I''m an experienced .NET system architect and PRISM/WPF/C#
developer by
> day and have picked up a job that basically suits RoR, Postgres set up
> over the normal .NET SQLServer route I would take.
>
> The whole MVC thing is very familiar as I make extensive use of
> MVVM/MVC/MVP/IoC with WPF & PRISM. What''s going to hold me
back
> initially is syntax and learning Ruby. I got the whole dev environment
> set up in a flash and have been playing about and doing some hello
> worlds :)
>
> The application I''m looking to build comprises of a highly dynamic
Rails
> web site (jQuery, AJAX), a public HTTP API (XML/JSON) to feed the web
> site and third party apps and of course the database. All access to the
> database is handled by the API. Facebook/Native/OAuth and authorisation
> and authentication. Temporary tokenised credentials for 3rd party apps.
>
> There will also be a mobile app (Android, iOS, Windows Phone) and a
> desktop widget on the Adobe Air platform further down the line.
>
> The application will almost certainly end up on Heroku and possibly
> using Mashery to manage the API and Heroku Postgres database hosting
> solution.
>
> Sorry for the waffle but though it pertinent to include as much
> background on the scenario as possible.
>
> The question is what gems or libraries should I look at that go some way
> to providing some base functionality into a rails app that this type of
> application could benefit from?
>
> There is no point reinventing the wheel when someone has already tackled
> some of the common problems I''ll face.
>
> I''ll be using ActiveModel over ActiveRecord for the models as
these will
> be sent straight to the public API for persistence.
>
> Any recommendation would be great. Good article links would be great as
> well.
>
> Looking forward to getting to know the group!
>
> Jam
>
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