BiQ on Rails, it’s a go!

Journal entry
July 11, 2006

At long last! I got the final commitment from my boss. We’ll be moving down the path of rebuilding BiQ using Ruby on Rails. Goodbye stupid ASP, hello sweet Ruby.

Our preliminary tests shows that nothing we are currently doing is outside of the scope of Rails. They also show that Ruby will perform as well as, or better than, the current ASP/IIS/Windows solution - and that’s when running on a lower grade machine than our production server.

In addition to preserving what’s left of my sanity, this renewed BiQ should also bring us to a position where we can do a lot of interesting stuff that we want to in the future.

I am - once again - excited about my job.

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Comments and Trackbacks

mikkel July 11, 2006

Tillykke!

I hope the migration will be a success

Martin July 11, 2006

Super! Congrats mate!

dalager July 12, 2006

Nice.
Porting an app to another framework like Rails sounds interesting.
And there will probably be a lot of onforeseen challenges.

Please, post about your experiences! It might be leveraging for others in your situation — both as a company and as a happy railer ;-)

DHH July 13, 2006

Congratulations!

Jarkko Laine August 7, 2006

Congrats, man! Nothing beats a happy developer.

bolo August 12, 2006

Can u tell us more ?
I would like to something similar. Do u use IIS ? What is you bdd ?

Allan Siew August 13, 2006

Congrats!

Jesper Rønn-Jensen (justaddwater.dk) August 14, 2006

Congratulations!
That’s definately a biq achievment that you have that decision!
The right decision to make you happy!

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