how we did ror in wakoopa

Robert Gaal

“What do you use?”Social network for software

How?

1.Install a tracker

2.Check out your profile

3.Share your experiences

4.Get updated

5.Discover new things

6.→ Go to 2

So...?

•Over 6.000 users the first month

•9.4 million hours of software usage

•Digged, TechCrunched, newspapered, etc.

•Nominated for Businessweek’s Europe's Young Entrepreneurs 2007

•Our moms like it (because it’s ours)

•Our friends love it (because they’re nerds)

RubyOnRails“The geek equivalent of writing poetry”

No guarantees!We’re helpless geeks, but we’re not perfect

... that’s why we have Bradley

Rails Machine = developer nirvana

•Staging (the sandbox / kitchen)

•Database (the pwner)

•Production (the butler)

Three musketeers

Textmate & EGreatest. Tools. Ever.

SVN, Capistrano & Trac

The holy trinity of deployment and maintenance

Pingdom, Mailroom & Clicky

A webapp a day, keeps the pain away

Caching, caching, caching:expire for the win!

Request queueDon’t choke Mongrel (even if you want to)

Asset packagerSquish it baby

Image serverDon’t bother Mongrel with the statics

Slow query logCheck them indexes and bypass ActiveRecord

When all fails:

robert@wakoopa.com