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Vanity - an Experiment Driven Development framework for Rails
- boundlessdreamz 17y agoWhat is the advantage over google website optimizer?
- joepestro 17y agoThis is a rails gem, so you get all the benefits of integration with the web framework. As far as I know, GWO does A/B testing between hardcoded URLs, so the logic is then split between GWO (to redirect to the correct page) and your app (to serve the correct content for that page).
- fizx 17y agoEase of use, control, and not having to run the whole thing in javascript.
- charliepark 17y agoSome good comments here (http://apps.ycombinator.com/item?id=812764 http://apps.ycombinator.com/item?id=812764) about GWO versus more specific A/B testing tools. The linked comment was by Patio11 (http://apps.ycombinator.com/user?id=patio11 http://apps.ycombinator.com/user?id=patio11), who also has an A/B testing framework for Rails that's worth mentioning (http://www.bingocardcreator.com/abingo http://www.bingocardcreator.com/abingo). I don't know how ABingo and Vanity compare.
- perezd 17y agoGoogle web optimizer is a very cumbersome tool. Vanity is designed to work seamlessly in a Ruby/Rails environment. It even has a built in dashboard and reporting system! Also, its server-side, not client-side, which can really be useful in most cases. I was very impressed with this when I saw it at RubyConf 09!
- fizx 17y agoI dig it. Nice work on the logging/reporting. One preference: I'd like the alternatives to be blocks to execute, not just simple variable options.
- mhartl 17y agoThis looks cool, but I have one question: what is the source of the Ruby 1.9 dependency? I'd love to use this on a couple apps I host at Heroku, but they're on 1.8.6.