What do you do when you have a large, monolithic Rails app with technical debt creating performance and maintainability problems? You convert it to a NodeJS app.
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This weekend the Goodsmiths team participated in the 2012 Rails Rumble, a 48-hour programming competition. We built a Hot-or-Not-style website for handmade goods.
This past weekend I did some fun programming. During our Thursday brainstorming session at work, Levi mentioned a polaroid look (like from those instant cameras, remember?), and Brandon joked about shaking them. Thinking about this for a bit on Friday, I realized this effect would be pretty easy to implement. In the end it took less than an hour and about 60 lines of code.