Technology Audit

Technology Audit

Things We'll Need

• Screencasts (obvious)
• New design (obvious)
• Hosting for the screencasts (e.g. media.railscasts.com)
• Checkout payment system (including a merchant account and a payment gateway)
• Solution for full-text search and possibly cron / background jobs

Server-side Highlights

• Small application:
  • 7 Models
  • 7 Controllers (including ApplicationController)
  • 1 Mailer with 2 deliverable emails
• Ruby v1.9.2
• Rails v3.2.1 with PostgreSQL v8.3
• RSpec v2.8.0 (but coverage is minimal and slow)
• FactoryGirl v2.5.2
• Capybara v1.1.2 for acceptance testing
• Heroku v2.20.0
• Foreman v0.39.0 with Thin v1.3.1
• OmniAuth with GitHub for authentication
• CanCan for authorization

Client-side Highlights

• 100% ERB views
• 1 HTML5 layout for Desktop browsers
• No Asset Pipeline (just upgraded from Rails v3.0.10)
• jQuery v1.4.3
• jQuery Rails v2.0.0 for UJS
• No client-side web framework
• No client-side testing framework
• SublimeVideo player for multi-platform playback
• Clippy the flash clipboard widget
• Straight CSS
• Feedburner for RSS
• iTunes RSS Support