Enhancing the Gaming Site

Abstract

This was certainly a large project, wasn’t it? It’s the kind of project that we could really fill up a whole book with on its own, as we moved into other areas of the application such as supporting reviews, video uploads, and an article review/approval system—and this is just the backend administration system. You can imagine the fun we could have if we roll Rails out to the main site and explore the challenges of deploying a Rails application that handles a pretty fair amount of traffic onto a typical single-server scenario (handling issues such as fine-tuning our database queries and indexes, implementing caching, and of course, monitoring the performance of our application).