I am currently working on moving Muziboo’s search from ferret to sphinx. We were using acts_as_ferret (AAF) plugin which provides a very simple rails integration with ferret. AAF binds itself to the active record callbacks and makes index updation painless. However AAF is pretty unstable in production mode and we realized this only lately with [...]
Muziboo has a lot of emails going out everyday. For example, we notify people on new comments on their songs, email them their weekly stats or send them friendship requests (you can ofcourse turn off emails you don’ want). Its very important to ensure delivery of these emails as a lot of our users depend [...]
Welcome to the Muziboo Development Blog. I used to host a personal tech blog at my domain that I decided to move over and reboot as this blog. Here, you will find updates on Muziboo’s development, Ruby on Rails findings and general tech trivia on running a media site. I will also be releasing some [...]