Thanks. For context, we haven’t needed much web development the last months, so we currently only have one part-time Rails dev doing a few hours a week on small features. We’re going to hire either 1-2 full-time developers or hire an agency to build the new collection of websites.
We don’t plan to switch our main existing website to Elixir. It has a sizable backend content management system we developed with Rails for publishing daily news related to making the world a better place. It isn’t going to be part of the new collection of websites so we don’t need to integrate with it.
Besides authentification, does the Ruby CAS do other things to make it easier to integrate plugins from other frameworks with elixir?
Also, given that two of the benefits of Elixir are 1) being able to do hot-swapping when deploying new code to production; 2) when one thing in Elixir goes down, it doesn’t cause multiple things to crash.
When things such as RubyCAS or PHP forums are added to a mostly elixir system, are either of those benefits either lost or reduced? For example in the future, when our new versions of our Elixir codebase are deployed, can hot swapping still easily occur when some parts of our system that interact with our Elixir codebase are PHP (forums plugin) or Rails (e.g. CAS)?
