Vanity - an Experiment Driven Development framework for Rails

[charliepark]

http://github.com/assaf/vanity

[mhartl]

This 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.

[fizx]

I 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.

[boundlessdreamz]

What is the advantage over google website optimizer?

[charliepark → boundlessdreamz]

Some good comments here (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), who also has an A/B testing framework for Rails that's worth mentioning (http://www.bingocardcreator.com/abingo). I don't know how ABingo and Vanity compare.

[perezd → boundlessdreamz]

Google 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!

[joepestro → boundlessdreamz]

This 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 → boundlessdreamz]

Ease of use, control, and not having to run the whole thing in javascript.