January 06, 2010
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Live From Harmony
After more than a year and a half of self-funded work on and off, Harmony is almost ready. It is so close in fact, that we (Steve and I) are beginning to eat our own dog food by moving our own sites into it. Rails Tips is the first to go live (if you can see this post, you are a witness) and I’m not going to lie, it feels good!
As I mentioned previously, we recently switched Harmony to MongoDB. A few have asked what issues we ran into and so far it has only been mental (free your mind matrix-style stuff). Now we will start getting into the nitty gritty. Expect some good posts soon.
Rails Tips is all moved and our company site, OrderedList.com, is in the final stages of the redesign process and should be going live in Harmony later this week.
Redirects
Harmony has redirect support (including regex’s and back references) so I’ve put a few in place to fix the URLs, but there are bound to be some broken things around here. If you run into anything that isn’t working, just let me know with a comment or something.
Technical Details To Come
I am really excited about the future of Harmony and I’ll be posting more on the technical details soon, but for now this lame post will have to suffice. :)
14 Comments
Jan 06, 2010
Congrats! It’s awesome to see these new technologies in the wild, and I’m really looking forward to reading your experences with deploying Mongo for this huge project!
Jan 06, 2010
So awesome. I can’t wait to check out harmony! Going through the new doc site just made me that much more anxious. How long do you think you’ll be in beta?
Jan 06, 2010
Also, this link is broken: http://railstips.org/2009/6/3/what-if-a-key-value-store-mated-with-a-relational-database-system
I clicked it from the Projects (looks like the URL is missing the /archives/ piece). But the same article works when clicked from Smorgasbord.
Just thought I’d let you know (and feel free to delete this comment once it’s fixed).
Jan 06, 2010
I can’t wait to see Harmony. I said to myself when I saw your first post about MongoMapper that MongoDB would be great for a new kind of CMS, and it looks like you guys have beat me to it!
Jan 06, 2010
What will be the prices of Harmony?
Jan 06, 2010
@Ryan Heath: Well, like I said, we are self-funding so we are still doing client work. That means it is harder to project dates. I would think by the end of January would be a safe estimate, but who knows.
Jan 06, 2010
Whoa, that’s actually a lot faster than I assumed. Either way, no hurry. Greatness takes time :-)
Jan 06, 2010
Sweet! Feels faster.
Jan 06, 2010
@Ryan Heath: Yes, yes it does.
@Chris: Cool! Yeah, it is definitely faster than Dreamhost. :) I’m already seeing tons of tweaks that I need to do in spots that will make it even faster. Someday…
Jan 07, 2010
Any way to migrate a site without causing all the rss entries to show up new? I have duplicates of all the past articles.
Jan 07, 2010
@Wes Garrison: I probably changed the ids in the entries. Not a big deal, it only happens once.
Jan 09, 2010
Seems like the content for http://railstips.org/blog/archives/2008/07/29/it-s-an-httparty-and-everyone-is-invited didn’t get moved over, either.
Jan 10, 2010
@Pete Forde: Ah, good catch. All the content was moved but a few of the permalinks are a bit different so I’ve been applying redirects. Thanks for letting me know Pete.
Jan 15, 2010
Missing:
http://railstips.org/blog/archives/2009/04/20/how-to-add-simple-permissions-into-your-simple-app.-also-thoughtbot-rules/
(Textile isn’t being kind to the URL above.)
:)
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