Comments on: Realie Project: Data Structure & Storage

By: LakTEK – Real-time Collaborative Editing with WebSockets, Node.js & Redis - (Lakshan Perera)

Tue, 25 May 2010 23:49:51 +0000

[…] for my individual research project in the university. Since then I did couple of posts on the design decisions and on technologies I experimented for the project. After some excessive hacking, today I’ve […]

By: Lakshan

Lakshan — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 06:16:49 +0000

Hi Gaveen,

Thanks for your comments and wishes :)

Regarding JSON serialization, I’m using Yajl-ruby JSON parsing and encoding library (http://github.com/brianmario/yajl-ruby#readme). Apart from providing faster encoding and decoding, it supports parsing directly from streaming IO (which will be really handy to parse the responses coming from the client). Also, now the Rails 3 edge directly supports Yajl as an alternative JSON parser.

By: Gaveen

Gaveen — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:28:15 +0000

Interesting concepts to implement. It seems that you’ve already made most of the main design decisions.

One interesting technology choice is the use of Redis. I haven’t used it myself, and I don’t believe I’d have the opportunity (i.e. time) any time soon. But I’ve also heard it’s good. Heavyweights like @ezmobius swear by it. Anyway, which method are you planning to use for JSON serialization efficiently?

Good luck for the project and we’ll be watching it with much interest. :)