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Well the day finally arrived to kickoff my new "enterprise" Rails project; this one a lot more sophisticated and cooler than the supply-chain stuff I was doing late last year.

I'm arrived in Delaware last night and I'll be commuting here for the next few months building a fairly complex, internal-facing Rails app to do credit-card related transactions processing. Today Jeff Patton and I spent most of the day acclimating and making sure I have a fuller understanding of the requirements. Among the exciting technical constraints, the system should scale up to handle 20 million accounts without a problem... right now we'll be processing about 5 million accounts on a monthly basis. The proposed app itself is quite interesting technically -- it's essentially a large rules-oriented system -- we have to do all sorts of workflow and validation around the rules and be able to execute them on a monthly schedule to generate financial results that get routed into other internal systems. We're replacing Oracle scripts that have proven too difficult to maintain and extend.

I haven't encountered anything that seems like "rocket-science" yet, and don't expect to. Also the internal team has been very responsive and enthusiastic so far, which is making me feel good about our ultimate success.

The team blog should be up soon and I'll post the link here as soon as it's available. I know that over the next few months we will have lots of interesting techniques and cool Ruby stuff to share. Ah yes, the rest of the team: Jeff Patton (unfo just for a couple of weeks), Michael "Perlmage" Granger (well-known in the Ruby world), Joe O'Brien (Chicago.rb organizer) and Badri Janakiraman (new to Ruby but one of the best minds in the company, and that is saying a LOT!)