At Boundless, we’ve gone deep with option #2 and rolled it out to thousands of students. Our server is a JSON REST API (Scala + MongoDB), and all of our client code is served straight out of CloudFront (ie: www.boundless.com is just an alias for CloudFront). Pros: Cutting-edge/exciting A lot of bang for your buck: … Read more
Here is a basic template for Sinatra apps that I use. (My larger apps have 200+ files broken out like this, not counting vendor’d gems, covering 75-100 explicit routes. Some of these routes are Regexp routes covering an additional 50+ route patterns.) When using Thin, you run an app like this using: thin -R config.ru … Read more
Also for Mac: if you do not already have xcode dev tools installed on your system (perhaps you recently upgraded your OS or Xcode), run xcode-select –install otherwise, a more invasive fix is to set the active directory using the –switch flag sudo xcode-select –switch / from the xcode-select manual: -s <path>, –switch <path> Sets … Read more
Your Nginx config is correct, you just miss few lines. Here is a “magic trio” making EventSource working through Nginx: proxy_set_header Connection ”; proxy_http_version 1.1; chunked_transfer_encoding off; Place them into location section and it should work. You may also need to add proxy_buffering off; proxy_cache off; That’s not an official way of doing it. I … Read more