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RoR in the browser (Heroku + Code-academy)

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Re: RoR in the browser (Heroku + Code-academy)

#12

Post by hhemanth »

Hi,

This is Hemanth , Founder at Codelearn. We had unprecedented spike in our traffic this morning. Thanks very much for trying us out.

frank confessions :

1. We did not expect that codelearn will get posted on hackernews, leave alone make it to the front page!.

2. We wanted a smaller audience to try it out first before releasing to a larger audience at hackernews .

3. We have been working on this only for 2 months now and there are lots of rough edges, some of them are really silly, like making the rails environment production and ideally we should fixed these small things.

4. We are working to fix these problems and will post a message here as soon as we are done.

5. Some of you have pointed that there were Grammatical errors in the copy. We understand that it is important, but we did'nt expect such a large audience.

I would like to reiterate my gratitude for the support .

warm regards hemanth

Re: RoR in the browser (Heroku + Code-academy)

#13

Post by binarydreams »

hhemanth wrote: post #12

Hi, This is Hemanth , Founder at Codelearn. We had unprecedented spike in our traffic this morning. Thanks very much for trying us out. frank confessions : 1. We did not expect that codelearn will get posted on hackernews, leave alone make it to the front page!. 2. We wanted a smaller audience to try it out first before releasing to a larger audience at hackernews . 3. We have been working on this only for 2 months n…

I would like to know a bit more about the architecture behind it.

When 1000 users are coding together some RoR app, how do you guys execute that many behind on your server ? I can understand that file browser and all can be done with HTML5 APIs, but then on execution you have to take the entire app (controllers, models, views, asset pipeline, etc. etc.) on the server execute them, get the output.

Are you guys going to run a lot of web server instances then (maybe 1 per user)?

Would love to know if you got no problem with sharing. Just for knowledge :)

Cheers and good luck with it!

Re: RoR in the browser (Heroku + Code-academy)

#15

Post by hhemanth »

binarydreams wrote: post #13
hhemanth wrote: post #12

Hi, This is Hemanth , Founder at Codelearn. We had unprecedented spike in our traffic this morning. Thanks very much for trying us out. frank confessions : 1. We did not expect that codelearn will get posted on hackernews, leave alone make it to the front page!. 2. We wanted a smaller audience to try it out first before releasing to a larger audience at hackernews . 3. We have been working on this only for 2 months n…

I would like to know a bit more about the architecture behind it. When 1000 users are coding together some RoR app, how do you guys execute that many behind on your server ? I can understand that file browser and all can be done with HTML5 APIs, but then on execution you have to take the entire app (controllers, models, views, asset pipeline, etc. etc.) on the server execute them, get the output. Are you guys going t…

We would definitely write a big blog post on it. Right now I can say we had about 200 users on just a EC2 micro instance. We dint expect lot of traffic and users. and I have to run to do damage control.

Re: RoR in the browser (Heroku + Code-academy)

#18

Post by hhemanth »

gisenberg wrote: post #17

Tried to sign up, received the following error: NoMethodError in Devise::RegistrationsController#create

so sorry. Can you send us a mail at founders@codelearn.org . we will revert as soon as we have upped our capacity.

We are not able to see this error and we see that some people are able to sign up and some are facing the error.

This is due to high traffic , just a guess. Sorry for the inconvenience.

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