matt-beedle.com

I have finally gotten around to re-writing the first rails site I ever wrote. So here it is http://www.best-mobile-phones.org.uk, the new and improved best mobile phones. The original was just a simple DB, and literally everything was using page caching. I had used out of the box scaffolding to edit the db, and whenever a user submitted a review, a cache_sweeper would clear the required pages from the cache.

The new site is built almost completely using REST. All phones lists are paginated using the will_paginate plugin, although I have not implemented the AJAX version yet. All the images are stored in the DB, and cached on the server when requested. I’ve also built a sweet CMS which allows me to edit almost anything on the site once logged in. There are sweepers set up for all of the data so any caches affected by the CMS are automatically expired. Finally, I also decided it was time to learn some web2.0 CSS! So I got my GIMP out, made a “Beta” badge, and curved the edges of any box I saw! So there it is, please go take a look, find some bugs, give me some feedback, buy a phone. End advertisement!