My involvement in classifieds.co.nz spanned the complete life cycle of the web site. I only work on the project in my spare time. From a design perspective, the only elements on the site left from the original design template are the header and footer. The site uses attachment_fu with RMagick to handle image manipulation and uploads to amazon S3, where the images are hosted. Searching is handled with acts_as_ferret and currently I'm working on caching to improve performance. The plan is to integrate a lot more Ajax into the application, but firstly I want to drive out most of the functionality and then layer the Ajax elements. This will allow me to degrade the functionality nicely when JavaScript is disabled.

Time taken to build6 weeks Plugins used acts_as_ferret, acts_as_money, acts_as_taggable_on_steroids, acts_as_urlnameable, attachment_fu, exception_notification, responds_to_parent, restful_authentication, rspec, rspec_on_rails, sexy_migrations, sweeper, will_paginate Gems used money, ferret, rmagick, aws-s3, Capistrano, Deprec People involved Maruis Tags classifieds