Hi Cameron, One idea is to build a bunch of little applications instead of just one and making them all connect with each other over REST. Having many apps would make it simpler to change their implementations and also to get people around it, as there would be less objects and things to worry about each of them. It's also easier to scale, as each app can run in it's own server, with it's own database without having to worry about the other ones.
The downside of having many micro-apps is that you end up with a lot of "moving parts" in your system, as an application needs to talk to other application to perform it's job. And one consideration, 40 columns in one table doesn't seem to be a good idea, maybe you could try to normalize it a litle bit more :) On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Cameron McCloud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Our group (team of 4) have done a few small-scale Rails applications. > They've been successful enough that we're contemplating a much larger > scale development. > > By scale I don't mean the number of users or hits/second or volumes of > data handled. That really isn't an issue for us, and even if it > happens we're confident we can deal with it. > > What we're most concerned about is scaling to a large number of models > and controllers. We estimate about 100+ "entities" that we'll need to > manage, and that doesn't include M:M join tables or general lookup > tables. Also, some of the tables (thankfully only a few) have more > than 40 columns. > > Most of the open-source projects we initially looked at for learning > and guidance are quite small (e.g. Insoshi has < 20 models). > > Are there any tips for programming in the large? > > Any pointers would be appreciated. > > Cam. > -- Maurício Linhares http://alinhavado.wordpress.com/ (pt-br) | http://blog.codevader.com/ (en) João Pessoa, PB, +55 83 8867-7208 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
