In a previous post I talked about the movies web site I’m building in Ruby on Rails with MySQL as the backend database. A buddy of mine is now helping me build the site, and it is coming along quite nicely. I continue to be amazed at how easy it is to get things done and pump out code and features.

So far our environment looks like:

1. Ubuntu 8.04.1
2. nginx 0.5.33
3. Rails 2.2.2
4. Ruby 1.8.6
5. MySQL 5.0.51a

We’re using WEBrick in development, but in production we’ll likely switch over to a combination of:

1. nginx for static files (css, images, js, etc)
2. Apache with modrails for the backend dynamic stuff
3. Ruby Enterprise Edition for scalability

I’ll post some updates as we move along and find anything worth mentioning.