# Canadian Centre for Architecture uses Rails!

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/canadian-centre-for-architecture-uses-rails/174770>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [September 2, 2009, 12:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/canadian-centre-for-architecture-uses-rails/174770 "2009-09-02T00:38:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jesse\_Sutherland](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@Jesse\_Sutherland](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jesse_Sutherland)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 12:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/canadian-centre-for-architecture-uses-rails/174770/1 "2009-09-02T00:38:29Z")

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Heyo folks, the new site for the CCA has been up for the past month  
or so and we (Bluesponge) are pretty proud of it: [http://cca.qc.ca](http://cca.qc.ca)  
We spent a lot of time on this site and used a lot of different  
technologies to make it happen, including EXT JS, Liquid etc. The CMS  
is a sweet app (which sadly none of you can see) but we’d love to get  
some feed back from experienced users on any sort of issue  
(performance being the obvious key criterion). In terms of full  
disclosure, before this project started I was a total Ruby novice (and  
still am relatively) but it was really easy to get into and I’d  
thoroughly recommend using Liquid in conjunction for banging out some  
sweet templates. For futher reference we also used YAML (for among  
other things, basic config for the same Liquid templates), published  
pages in XHTML, and JSON, and French and English, and used a bunch of  
gems. It all gets pretty complicated under the hood but I believe the  
site holds up quite well. Let me know what you think! Thanks