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adw wrote: post #3

labria wrote: post #2

Looks nice. Wonder what platform they're using...

Pretty sure BBC A+MI is a Rails shop (most of the rest of the BBC, including iPlayer, is Perl).

I saw a presentation a while back which indicated there was a bit of erlang creeping into the mix behind the scenes, too.

Re: BBC - Music - Developers

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Post by labria » Sun, Sep 13, 2009, 6:11 PM UTC

adw wrote: post #3

labria wrote: post #2

Looks nice. Wonder what platform they're using...

Pretty sure BBC A+MI is a Rails shop (most of the rest of the BBC, including iPlayer, is Perl).

I thought it was in Rails judging by the url schema (the .format notation, and yaml), but the headers and cookies differ from the usual Rails ones...

Re: BBC - Music - Developers

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Post by metade » Mon, Sep 14, 2009, 10:14 AM UTC

/music and /programmes are implemented in Pinwheel, a Perl MVC framework strongly inspired by Rails. More details are available here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2007/11/perl_on_rails.s...

Re: BBC - Music - Developers

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Post by olliesaunders » Mon, Sep 14, 2009, 8:20 PM UTC

The BBC has had excellent policies on web development for a long time, it's only recently they started following them.