Technology stack

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Daniel O'Connor edited this page Jul 8, 2016 · 1 revision

The backbone:

Ruby (programming language)
Rails (web framework, using an MVC architecture)
PostgreSQL (database)
Apache with mod_rails aka Phusion Passenger (web server)
Heroku (trialling this as of Jan 2013, instead of apache/mod_rails)

On top of that we use the following toolkits, Ruby gems etc:

Twitter Bootstrap (responsive CSS/javascript framework)
HAML (succinct markup for views, as an alternative to Rails' default ERB)
Devise (user signup/login/session management)
FriendlyID (making friendlier URLs)
Bluecloth (Markdown formatting)
Comfortable Mexican Sofa (CMS)

Developer infrastructure:

Git (distributed version control)
Github (hosts our code repositories)
RSpec (for unit testing)
Spork (optional - speed up testing)
Watchr (optional - run tests whenever code files change)
Bundler (keep version numbers of gems in sync between coders)
RVM (easily use a specific version of Ruby and a specific bundle of gems)
Rake (Ruby replacement for Make)
Capistrano (deployment to the production and dev servers)
Cape (turn Rake tasks into Capistrano tasks)
FactoryGirl (create reusable data for RSpec tests)