If you were to code a marketplace app like AirBnB today, what technology & stack would you use?

[Brandon]

So having spent almost a year coding in RoR, I'm thinking of applying "new stuff" that I didn't get to use in my past projects.

Keeping in mind that I want to keep improving my skills and experience so that someday I can find that elusive remote RoR job, what would you suggest I use?

I have on my list:

1. CoffeeScript

2. Haml

3. Rspec and Capybara

4. Database other than PostgreSQL

5. Hosting other than Heroku

6. BitBucket

[Matthew Witek]

I would add Angular (or another front end framework) and some type of CI.

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[Brandon]

Would you replace any one on my list with something else? Which DB, hosting solution and source control would you use?

[Rick]

I would suggest Solr or MongoDB or (you pick) some other NoSQL db tool as a focus for item 4.

Git hard to beat for a source control choice.

You should add automation tools for working your production release (installation, backup, error recovery, ...).

[Karthikeyan A K]

I am an Embe fan, so would like to use that to reduce server load.

[Karthikeyan A K]

Oops that must be ember not embe :(

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[Andreas Wenk]

Brandon,

why not using PostgreSQL?

Hosting: EngineYard https://www.engineyard.com/

SCM: git

Cheers

Andy

[Karthikeyan A K]

+1 for postgre

Engine yard costs, better go for Digital Ocean or Linode

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[Andreas Wenk]

DigitalOcean is cool I gues - but it still costs :) 

here is a good comparison of the various service providers

https://www.digitalocean.com/competitor-pricing/

[Brandon]

Andy, trying to do something new to expand my skills and knowledge so not using PostgreSQL.

Karthikeyan, thanks will look into it. I know it may sound crazy to do everything completely different from the current project but feeling programatically inadequate lately after switching to Rails.. Feels like I'm building a recipe list for a World of Warcraft hero.

But if I use Ember.js, that means bye-bye RoR?

[Karthikeyan A K]

Not exactly, Ember brings a framework to the client side, just like Ruby on Rails is a frame work to server side. You can try this gem https://github.com/dockyard/ember-appkit-rails

Though the your view of client side of application may change after using ember, the server side will still be in Rails.

Goto http://emberjs.com/guides/getting-started/ to learn it.

Enjoy Life!

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[Sampath Weerasinghe]

curious what is it about heroku that turns people off

i even heard heroku is backed by the matz himself.

-Sam

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[Karthikeyan A K]

Lack of control. The cost. Plus I am nervous about their addons, weather if I use it my app will be locked into heroku infrastructure.

But its great place to show a small free demo to some one.

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[James Carrasquer]

If you're looking for a new NoSQL option, check out
http://orchestrate.io, where all data is accessed via a RESTful
interface. I've been working on a couple of gems (one wraps the api,
while the other is a rails model mapper) and recently pushed them up to
rubygems.org.

You can find the docs at http://jimcar.github.io

I'd very much appreciate any feedback from the ruby community.

Thanks in advance,

James

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