Hi all, I have built a rails application with a custom layer of web and media services with different features.
First, there is a data retrieval service which works in the following steps: - On rails startup, one autonomous thread is instantiated for each service (we work with JRuby for performance reasons). - Data and atimes are stored in rails synchronized memory store, and threads activate themselves or adjust their delay (from 10 to 1 second) when clients connect to the site and start sending Ajax requests (every second). We do this because we want to save on bandwith (it is still huge files even though we moved from xml to json) and limit the computing capacity needed for these services (on the data sources). Second, the system talks to a REST API on these data sources but we sometimes have to keep some kind of stateful representation of the data sources because depending on the context some calls should not be forwarded (FSM-like behavior). I will also have to implement an exclusive lock system because in some cases it is required that only one client at a time is able to talk to this API. Third, we need to be able to control an MJPG streaming server (written in Ruby as well) that serves video streams to custom Flash clients. So this services layer is currently implemented as a small framework in its own right and everything is initialized when rails starts. The reason for that is that I had to develop everything under severe time constraints. Now that the doability of the project has been validated and we will very likely stick with rails, I am looking for ways to better integrate all these components with rails but I do not really know where to start. Should I pluginify as much as possible? Should I create some kind of LiveDataEntity - View - Controller apps? Do my requirements necessitate to extend rails itself or is there already some clean way to satisfy them? Any thoughts welcome. Thanks. -- 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 rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
