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QVWines.com Launches

Quattro Vino

A project I have been working on for the past few months launched last night - QVWines.com.

This project has been one of the best I've ever worked on. I was mostly in charge of the code, server, and database work, while a third-party designer came up with the UI. I was free to use the latest and greatest Rails had to offer, and during the course of the project, we made several big changes that went smoothly thanks to Rails' flexibility.

The server runs Apache / Mongrel - which is far better than what we started with - FastCGI and Lighttpd. We made heavy use of migrations, unit, functional, and integration tests. We used Authorize.net for the payment processing, and we also added gift card support that is made possible by Ruby's great XML-RPC libraries. To top it off, we built a POS system for the physical store so all inventory and orders are kept in one database.