Application Purpose

Villasbroker is an application that is used by a land / villas broker who whishes to sell properties. More about this on Villasbroker.

Special Features of this Application

• Fully multilingual, both on data and labels
• Admin logs in to make changes to content
• CMS like features
• Multimedia support for villas sold

Technologies Used

• Linux distribution (Debian 6)
• Hosted on a virtual private server
• Apache proxy to Thin servers
• Ruby on Rails
• MySQL

Ruby on Rails Special Considerations

• Full internationalization
• rmagick and carrierwave for uploading and resizing images
• acts_as_list: Sortable list of objects
• sitemap_generator to generate sitemap xml
• kaminari: Used for pagination
• jQuery and jQuery UI
• Testing:
  • Test Unit
  • Fixtures
  • validator_attachment. Used to check whether specific validators are attached to a model.
  • [cucumber](http://github.com/cucumber/cucumber/tree/master] for Acceptance Tests
• new relic. Used for real-time process monitoring.

Project Data

• About 1.5 man-months
• About 20 models
• About 20 tables
• About 10 controllers
• About X tests
• About X lines of code