Category: Ruby on Rails

Spell Check in ruby and rails using BOSSMan

by sandipransing, posted in Ruby, Ruby on Rails

Wrong English is an often problem while developing any website product as it gives bad view to website user and thus does direct impact on product. BOSSMan is a ruby gem that interacts with yahoo web service and provides a simplest way to overcome such errors. Installation: gem sources -a http://gems.github.com gem install jpignata-bossman Apply … Continue reading Spell Check in ruby and rails using BOSSMan

Load Testing and Setting Benchmarks

by Gautam Rege, posted in Ruby on Rails

A lot has been said about load testing and performance testing already -- I do not intend to repeat the dose. However, I have found that there is indeed very little information about what is a good test for load and performance.  Services like NewRelic are awesome but they will monitor performance and the ideal … Continue reading Load Testing and Setting Benchmarks

Video encoding with Encoding.com and Rackspace Cloudfiles

by Gautam Rege, posted in Ruby on Rails

We have been working with a couple of media centric web-portals which require video encoding, storage and streaming. Initial guidance and research showed us a couple of successful approaches: Heywatch! with Amazon S3 / Amazon CloudFront encoding.com with S3 / Cloudfiles / Limelight CDN solution After some deliberation and talks we finally settled on encoding.com … Continue reading Video encoding with Encoding.com and Rackspace Cloudfiles