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Dheeraj Kumar On Saturday 22 September 2012 at 2:15 AM, Jammer Jamski wrote: > Hi All, > > I've arrived at the door of Ruby! I'm a complete noob to Ruby and RoR > and looking for some high level advice on things to look at. > > I'm an experienced .NET system architect and PRISM/WPF/C# developer by > day and have picked up a job that basically suits RoR, Postgres set up > over the normal .NET SQLServer route I would take. > > The whole MVC thing is very familiar as I make extensive use of > MVVM/MVC/MVP/IoC with WPF & PRISM. What's going to hold me back > initially is syntax and learning Ruby. I got the whole dev environment > set up in a flash and have been playing about and doing some hello > worlds :) > > The application I'm looking to build comprises of a highly dynamic Rails > web site (jQuery, AJAX), a public HTTP API (XML/JSON) to feed the web > site and third party apps and of course the database. All access to the > database is handled by the API. Facebook/Native/OAuth and authorisation > and authentication. Temporary tokenised credentials for 3rd party apps. > > There will also be a mobile app (Android, iOS, Windows Phone) and a > desktop widget on the Adobe Air platform further down the line. > > The application will almost certainly end up on Heroku and possibly > using Mashery to manage the API and Heroku Postgres database hosting > solution. > > Sorry for the waffle but though it pertinent to include as much > background on the scenario as possible. > > The question is what gems or libraries should I look at that go some way > to providing some base functionality into a rails app that this type of > application could benefit from? > > There is no point reinventing the wheel when someone has already tackled > some of the common problems I'll face. > > I'll be using ActiveModel over ActiveRecord for the models as these will > be sent straight to the public API for persistence. > > Any recommendation would be great. Good article links would be great as > well. > > Looking forward to getting to know the group! > > Jam > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > (mailto:[email protected]). > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > (mailto:[email protected]). > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
