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The BBC have just launched a catalogue site built on back of ROR... [quote]Within incredibly tight timescales and large technical constraints, our BBC team performed a feat in taking a home-grown catalogue of all the BBC's programmes since the 1920s public (over 900,000 entries!) and launching [url=http://catalogue.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax]http://catalogue.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax[/url]. The catalogue database was written in Ruby on Rails, a platform that has, until recently, invited cynicism from the technical community at large with regards to its scalability. The team have made it robust enough for public consumption, and have increased performance well above the BBC's requirements. The catalogue is not comprehensive and the programmes themselves are not included for streaming or downloading. It's currently a research tool to guide visitors to the content catalogued by the BBC in its long history, though they have aspirations to make some of their archive programmes available in the future. Have a play! [/quote] Another finger up at the nay sayers with Twitter and Yellow pages (USA) already proving that Rails has scalability it's good to see other organisations now taking it seriously and reaping the benefits of agile development and swift deployment. FYI: The company I'm at worked on the Rails for this project and deployed it. Cheers, [img]http://www.geocities.com/blaise69dude/images/BlaiseSig.gif[/img]
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