SugarStats.com launches private-beta of online diabetes management site
So after almost a year of working on our Rails app, we’re ready to launch SugarStats and get some real feedback on it besides our own internal team.
I’ve been using it myself for over 9 months and it’s helped me greatly. I guess its the same with making ANY decision and not just diabetes health choice: The more info you have on something the better you can make a judgment. Plus seeing line graphs and pie charts doesn’t hurt either 
We’ve built it off Rails 1.2 using REST. The main application is 90% straight CRUD goodness with a sprinking of Ajax/RJS in all the right places as we primarily focused on making a clean, easy-to-use user interface.
As for gems/plugins we’re using the usual suspects:
- Act_as_tree
- Restful_authentication
- Gruff_graphs, tzinfo
- Rspec (more of this soon)
- Simply_helpful
- Active_form
- Google_analytics
- Mocha
- Act_as_attachment
- Flex_image
- Flex_times
- Secure_actions
- Enkoder
Maybe in the future we’ll hop on the OpenID bandwagon, we’ll see. One thing at a time, we have much polishing to do to get to public launch.
As for hosting we’ve been running great on Slicehost.com (Highly Recommended) and have design it for easy horizontal scaling via simply adding extra VPS slices. The entire stack is open-source: MySQL, Ubuntu Server, Postfix, Ruby 1.8.5 etc.
Thanks to all of those who have support and kept up with us. Stay tuned as there will definitely be more to come!
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Posted on February 28, 2007
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