An overview of the technologies that I use on a daily basis creating dynamic websites.

1. Enterprise Open Source
Jason Dew
Budget and Control Board
Office of Research and Statistics
Health and Demographics

2. Situation
ORS is a service agency -- mostly we serve other state
agencies
very limited in our web development staff resources
fortunate enough to have management that allows us
some freedom in selecting our tools

3. The Solution
Ruby on Rails - web framework
mySQL - database server
Nginx - web server
Thin - application server
Git - source control
Capistrano - automated deployment

4. Free and Open Source
also known as F/OSS

5. Rails

6. Rapid prototyping

7. MVC architecture

8. Easy code reuse

9. Contains an ORM
ActiveRecord