My Journey on Rails

Spree

2008-05-25T23:47:00.000-07:00

I've been looking for a way to get involved in the rails community for a long time. I've felt that if I could find a good project that I could help out on maybe I could learn a lot about the framework and web development in general. Enter http://spreehq.com! While looking for a ROR commerce solution for a client I stumbled upon this application and I have joined github and am working to get involved in the project. Check it out!

Lack of time...

2007-11-25T18:07:00.001-08:00

Today I did a lot of stuff around the house and just couldn't make time for programming. I'm hoping since I have a few days free this week I will get an opportunity to sit down and work on the admin backend listings controller and try to tie some things together. Expect some updates on Wednesday.

cityofhazard.com

2007-11-23T20:22:00.000-08:00

My company has also developed the website for the city I live in. www.cityofhazard.com is a poorly written website we slapped together really fast. The photoshop template is really the only part of the page we took any time on. It is really a great portfolio piece for us so I've decided to rewrite the code. Write now www.cityofhazard.com/new is written in PHP using the codeigniter framework. To prove our skillset I think I will leave it this way. I have plenty of other big projects I want to develop with rails. soo.... check it out.

Thanksgiving is not good for code...

2007-11-22T06:56:00.000-08:00

I've been really busy this week and not had a lot of time to post any progress or make any progress for that matter. I've got a few new podcasts from Peepcode.com to look at. I will make a post on Saturday.

The main component...

2007-11-20T06:34:00.001-08:00

In my opinion the main component of my application is the ability to Add, Edit and Delete listings from the agencies website. So my first step here is to create a seperate frontend and backend section. There is some mention of this in the book Agile Development on Rails. There is a section in here about grouping controllers into modules by doing something similar to this.

script/generate controller Admin::Listings index new create edit update delete

This would allow me to have an admin section to my application that would be seperate from my pages frontend. In this case might be useful, eventhough in the future I have much different plans. Maybe I should post my plans...

Resources I am looking at.

2007-11-19T19:56:00.000-08:00

I want my application to be truly 100% Web 2.0. I think that is what will set my application apart from the plethora of other web-based real estate management solutions. So I'm looking at things that will really make our app marketable. Here is a list of things I've found tonight.

A Web Application for Real Estate Professionals

2007-11-19T19:08:00.000-08:00

This blog will track my progress as a newbie to the Ruby on Rails web application framework. My first project will be the best possible web-based real estate solution I can write. I am co-owner of WaveFade Media LLC, we currently host and manage 2 real estate websites. Both of which run a pretty crappy system we've called ORMS. The software is poorly coded in PHP and MySql, and in dire need of a rewrite. After hours of research I've decided that Rails is my best option for this project.

I will use this blog to track my progress and post anything I think may be of interest to other newbies. I've found that the best resources I've ran across so far are those posted on other developer's blog sites. So here we go...