My first high(ish) profile public site in Rails!
FAES, the Spanish Foundation for Social Analysis and Studies is now running on Rails, or at least the document management side is. (Anything you see under the documentos.fundacionfaes.info domain is Rails, you’ll also notice the pretty URLs).
Under the multimedia section you’ll also find a spot of backwards compatible AJAX along with the flash videos, another first for me. This is a section I’m still working on, so expect some improvements, including proper support for jumping through large videos.
For the real geeks, you’ll probably be interested to know what we’re running on the server. In the end, I decided on Lighttpd for static content and proxying dynamic content to Pound, which in turn proxies and evenly distributes load to the 3-some Mongrel cluster. Naturally, the backend database is MySQL.
So far, I’ve been really happy with the performance, and Lighttpd is really refreshing compared to apache. Lighttpd also has support for “streaming” flash videos, which was one of the main selling points for me, and comes into play in the multimedia section.
There you have it, probably one of the first high profile (although perhaps not high traffic) websites to be running Rails in Spain. Expect more ;-)
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