Rails - Jan 2005 - re-writing CD Baby from scratch in Ruby, using Rails

I guess it''s OK to tell the public, now, that I''m re-writing
CD Baby
from scratch in Ruby, using Rails.

Announcement, here:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6286

CD Baby is currently 90k lines of PHP code, written over 6 years by
me, alone, as I had no idea what I was doing.  It''s ugly. Though
I''m
still not an expert, I''ve learned enough about good OO design to know
what needs to be done.  Since all existing code is built around some
real fundamental flaws, a total rewrite is not just a necessity but
very exciting.

It''s been pretty successful as-is, though, paying over $12 million
directly to our 80,000 musician clients.  CD Baby gets about 15,000
unique visitors per day.  More complex than just a store, though,
we''re also one of the biggest digital distributors of audio to Apple
iTunes, Napster, Rhapsody, etc.  Read more about CD Baby at
http://cdbaby.com/about

Rails expert Jeremy Kemper is doing the most work, up-front, and
Tobias Luetke is on board to help too.  We''ll be contributing all
changes back to the Rails code repository.

Bookmark/subscribe to my O''Reilly blog at
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/1841 if you want to watch the
almost-daily developments.  I''m going to be very open with the whole
process.

Feel free to ask any questions, here on the list.  (Use "CD Baby"
somewhere in the subject if you want to make sure I see it.)

--
Derek Sivers, CD Baby
president and programmer
http://www.cdbaby.com
email: derek at cdbaby dot com

CD Baby wrote:
> I guess it''s OK to tell the public, now, that I''m
re-writing CD Baby
> from scratch in Ruby, using Rails.
This kicks a TREMENDOUS amount of ass.  I LOVE CD Baby, and it being in 
rails makes me very excited.  I wish you the best of luck with this, and 
having Jeremy and Tobias on board with you is definitely a Good Thing.

I''m very excited about this!

-Scott




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Wow, i''ve really enjoyed cdbaby the last couple years,
and have read your technical and "backend" stuff, and
how your machines run openbsd.  good luck and i''m
looking forward to following along!

john


--- CD Baby <cdbaby-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I guess it''s OK to tell the public, now, that I''m
> re-writing CD Baby
> from scratch in Ruby, using Rails.
> 
> Announcement, here:
> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6286


		
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Wow thats great. I have quite a few musician friends that use CDBaby. 
This will be something I will follow closely. And I''m sure we all 
appreciate you opening the code for everyone to benefit from!
Thanks You!...


On Jan 22, 2005, at 4:57 PM, CD Baby wrote:
> I guess it''s OK to tell the public, now, that I''m
re-writing CD Baby
> from scratch in Ruby, using Rails.
>

On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 16:57:28 -0800, CD Baby
<cdbaby-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> I guess it''s OK to tell the public, now, that I''m
re-writing CD Baby
> from scratch in Ruby, using Rails.
> 
> Announcement, here:
> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6286
> 
> CD Baby is currently 90k lines of PHP code, written over 6 years by
> me, alone, as I had no idea what I was doing.  It''s ugly. Though
I''m
> still not an expert, I''ve learned enough about good OO design to
know
> what needs to be done.  Since all existing code is built around some
> real fundamental flaws, a total rewrite is not just a necessity but
> very exciting.
> 
> It''s been pretty successful as-is, though, paying over $12 million
> directly to our 80,000 musician clients.  CD Baby gets about 15,000
> unique visitors per day.  More complex than just a store, though,
> we''re also one of the biggest digital distributors of audio to
Apple
> iTunes, Napster, Rhapsody, etc.  Read more about CD Baby at
> http://cdbaby.com/about
> 
> Rails expert Jeremy Kemper is doing the most work, up-front, and
> Tobias Luetke is on board to help too.  We''ll be contributing all
> changes back to the Rails code repository.
> 
> Bookmark/subscribe to my O''Reilly blog at
> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/1841 if you want to watch the
> almost-daily developments.  I''m going to be very open with the
whole
> process.
> 
> Feel free to ask any questions, here on the list.  (Use "CD Baby"
> somewhere in the subject if you want to make sure I see it.)
> 
> --
> Derek Sivers, CD Baby
> president and programmer
> http://www.cdbaby.com
> email: derek at cdbaby dot com
Good news!

It''s probably not possible to release the Rails code (or the DB
schema) for CD Baby... is it?  :-)  I''d love to see how a proper
E-Commerce site works in Rails.