Difficult to tell what your requirements are except for "integrate all these components with rails".
On Jul 23, 7:26 am, Luc <luc.traonmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
