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Ask HN: If you had to develop happytables, which technologies will you use?

Post by anujkk » Mon, Dec 10, 2012, 6:43 AM UTC

happytables.com uses ThemeForce(https://github.com/themeforce/framework), an open source wordpress based framework to power its restaurant website service.

If you are asked to develop a SAAS application similar to happytables which language/framework/technologies you will choose? Why?

Here are some features you may need to implement :

1) Account Management & Billing System

2) Admin Backend : Where customers can login and update their website information. It should be available as both web & mobile app.

3) Front-End should be made available as installable themes (similar to wordpress themes). Third party developers should be able to develop a custom theme using HTML,CSS,javascript, etc.

4) REST API

Re: Ask HN: If you had to develop happytables, which technologies will you use?

Post by avo » Mon, Dec 10, 2012, 8:09 AM UTC

This could be done with anything you are comfortable with. I would personally use Ruby on Rails for this task. As this is what I know the best. So here what you can use in Rails to do that:

- To manage your accounts you can use different auth gems: https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/categories/rails_authentication here is the big list of them.

- To make a billing system you can use: https://stripe.com/

- There is a really easy approach for making REST API in Rails

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