Vanity - an Experiment Driven Development framework for Rails

by charliepark • 17 years ago

20 7 17 years ago

What is the advantage over google website optimizer?

joepestro• 17 years ago

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).

fizx2• 17 years ago

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

charliepark• 17 years ago

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• 17 years ago

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!

fizx2• 17 years ago

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.

mhartl• 17 years ago

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.

Vanity - an Experiment Driven Development framework for Rails

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