From: Julian Leviston <julian@...>
Date: 2005-08-15T12:50:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Instiki with SQL backend

What does instiki run on at present "out of the box"?
Julian

On 15/08/2005, at 1:41 PM, Alex Verhovsky wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We've got a working (at least to some extent) Instiki  
> implementation backed by an ActiveRecord backend and SQLite  
> database. It's in a Subversion branch http://svn.instiki.org/ 
> instiki/branches/instiki-ar/, revision 360.
>
> If you find yourself thinking "heck, so what?", one possible  
> consequence is that one day it will drastically reduce  
> rubyonrails.org downtime and increase its performance. Not to  
> mention that all the people running public Instiki instances will  
> get the FastCGI deployment option most of them are crying for.  
> Besides, <hype>Instiki is the most popular end-user application in  
> the Ruby world</hype> :)
>
> "Working to some extent" refers to the fact that it passes all  
> available automated tests (unit, functional and Watir), as well as  
> half an hour of random poking around, while running on WEBRick with  
> SQLite DB, under Windows XP. It probably will be heinously slow on  
> any wiki larger than ~100 pages, so we are just half-way through  
> the "make it work, then make it fast" road. Still need to do  
> performance testing, refactor the database for speed, define  
> indexes, implement some caching etc. In other words, all the  
> "wizardry" bits. So, I thought maybe I can get some wizards with  
> Rails production expertise interested to the point of getting  
> involved at this stage.
>
> Even if you are not a wizard yet, you are most welcome to try it  
> out and tell me about the problems you encounter.
>
> Best regards,
> Alex
>
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