NZ On Screen . New Zealand Screen History Online
www.nzonscreen.com YouDo maintains and develops the NZ On Screen website, part of an NZ On Air initiative which provides free online access to New Zealand television, film, music video and new media.
The team at NZ On Screen add new digitised content to the large database of NZ media daily, and the website receives over 25,000 visitors a month. It recently won the 2009 Qantas Media Award for Best Entertainment Website.
The NZ On Screen platform uses Ruby on Rails, and YouDo was brought in to upgrade the existing technology from Rails 1.2.6 to Rails 2.2 and introduce greater reliance on Rails best practices and standards. The move to the latest Rails technologies and standards now provides a robust system that is easier to maintain, develop and deploy.
- Ruby on Rails
- Postgres
- Developed using agile processes
- Test Driven Development
- Continuous Integration