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Re:Ask YC: Critique my Facebook app by utnick on Tuesday November 06, 2007 @12:20AM (#76492)
looks pretty solid, clean, and well put together

Personally I'm pretty much burned out on typical facebook apps like this ( vampires, zombies, egg hatching, and so forth ), but I could see a lot of my friends using your app

what did you write it in out of curiousity?

Re:Ask YC: Critique my Facebook app by tmm1 on Tuesday November 06, 2007 @01:07AM (#76504)
Written in ruby, with the help of the following great technologies (most are ruby gems):

 - ramaze, the simple, modular web-framework (ramaze.net)
 - sequel as the database ORM layer (http://code.google.com/p/ruby-sequel/wiki/CheatSheet)
 - mongrel as the webserver (monkey patched with swiftiply to use eventmachine: http://swiftiply.swiftcore.org/mongrel.html)
 - facebooker for facebook api calls (http://chadfowler.com/2007/9/5/writing-apis-to-wrap-apis)
 - haml for html templating (http://haml.hamptoncatlin.com/)
 - sass for css templating (http://haml.hamptoncatlin.com/docs/sass)
 - analogger for logging (http://analogger.swiftcore.org/)
 - postgres for db backend (and sqlite for dev)