From the Forums: Another .NET-to-Rails Success Story

Posted by jeff Wednesday, August 29, 2007 01:38:00 GMT

Ed Laczynski is a .NET developer who's been learning Rails and making good use of our forums. Toward the end of this thread, he says:

Here is what I’ve managed to build:

  • a industry-specific search portal / quote engine using geonames, geokit, and ym4r gems/plugins for geography/mapping and yahoo local search api for data
  • memcached for storage of web service call output
  • pound/mongrel_cluster to serve it all on a linux VPS. performance tested with httperf and profiled with ruby_prof. i am probably going to move to ngnix/mongrel_cluster based on what i’ve been reading about ngnix
  • developed in TextPad on my MacBook Pro

All this from a .NET developer who hasn’t used an Apple since 1st grade LOGO. Thank you EVERYONE for your help in getting me going here.

This is exactly why Brian and I started this blog. We know first-hand that it ain't easy to learn Rails when you already know .NET (or Java, or PHP).

Congratulations, Ed. Rock on!

To everyone else: have you recently deployed your first Rails app? Share you story with us here or on the forums.

And if you're trying to learn Rails and want to one day launch your own site, consider coming to the fast-approaching Essential Rails workshop workshop. It's for beginners, in a non-intimidating atmosphere, where the goal is to have fun and get past those fears and hurdles that can loom large when you're just starting out.

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  1. ed   August 29, 2007 @ 03:46 PM

    thanks for the headline dudes!

  2. Paediatrics   August 29, 2007 @ 03:57 PM

    MacBook Pro it for fans!

  3. ed   August 30, 2007 @ 07:54 PM

    a quick article with some more info about geonames and geokit: http://www.idisposable.net/2007/08/mapping-and-location-maships-in-rails.html

  4. Jens Paulson   September 02, 2007 @ 09:48 AM

    Just in case you've missed this cool success story!

    http://pantherfotos.com

    http://www.rubyinside.com/pantherfotos-a-commercial-photo-site-built-with-two-months-of-rails-experience-444.html

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