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How Well Sencha Touch MVC Application Works With Rails

by Swapnil Chincholkar, posted in Mobile Development, Ruby

For sometime, we have been toying around with different frameworks to build cross-platform mobile applications. Our latest research was with Sencha Touch. This post is a tutorial to get kick-started. Installation To run Sencha Touch application you need: A running web server. I used a Rails server running on localhost:3000 A WebKit based browser like … Continue reading How Well Sencha Touch MVC Application Works With Rails

Case Study: Improving Performance of MySQL, Thinking Sphinx in a Rails app

by Gautam Rege, posted in Case Studies, Ruby on Rails, Search

Recently, we faced a huge performance problem with one of our installed apps. The application is a Call Center ERP solution. The Call model is updated very frequently as there are about approximately 8,000 - 10,000 calls being made everyday. For every action there is an audit trail, so updates and inserts into database are … Continue reading Case Study: Improving Performance of MySQL, Thinking Sphinx in a Rails app

Experience In Using IndexTank & Its various Facets

by Gautam Rege, posted in Ruby, Search

IndexTank got acquired by LinkedIn just a while back and I received a newsletter saying that they may discontinue services in 6 months. My tweet about this got a few responses from Pat Allen (@pat - the creator of Flying Sphinx) and others, which ended up with me promising a brief comparison between Thinking Sphinx … Continue reading Experience In Using IndexTank & Its various Facets