Difficult to tell what your requirements are except for "integrate all
these components with rails".
On Jul 23, 7:26 am, Luc
<luc.traonmi...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:> Hi all,
>
> I have built a rails application with a custom layer of web and media
> services with different features.
>
> First, there is a data retrieval service which works in the following
> steps:
> - On rails startup, one autonomous thread is instantiated for each
> service (we work with JRuby for performance reasons).
> - Data and atimes are stored in rails synchronized memory store, and
> threads activate themselves or adjust their delay (from 10 to 1
> second) when clients connect to the site and start sending Ajax
> requests (every second).
>
> We do this because we want to save on bandwith (it is still huge files
> even though we moved from xml to json) and limit the computing
> capacity needed for these services (on the data sources).
>
> Second, the system talks to a REST API on these data sources but we
> sometimes have to keep some kind of stateful representation of the
> data sources because depending on the context some calls should not be
> forwarded (FSM-like behavior). I will also have to implement an
> exclusive lock system because in some cases it is required that only
> one client at a time is able to talk to this API.
>
> Third, we need to be able to control an MJPG streaming server (written
> in Ruby as well) that serves video streams to custom Flash clients.
>
> So this services layer is currently implemented as a small framework
> in its own right and everything is initialized when rails starts. The
> reason for that is that I had to develop everything under severe time
> constraints.
>
> Now that the doability of the project has been validated and we will
> very likely stick with rails, I am looking for ways to better
> integrate all these components with rails but I do not really know
> where to start. Should I pluginify as much as possible? Should I
> create some kind of LiveDataEntity - View - Controller apps? Do my
> requirements necessitate to extend rails itself or is there already
> some clean way to satisfy them?
>
> Any thoughts welcome.
>
> Thanks.
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