The “real world” project I’ve come up with to learn Ruby on Rails will be ‘Freevite’ - an online event coordination application. A quick google turned up this project announcement (using perl no less), but it doesn’t appear anything became of it. I expect to make a lot of mistakes on the way, but I expect this to be an application I will use and therefore (hopefully) improve.
The design should be straightforward enough in its first incarnation, and I expect most of my initial learning will be finding the best way for me to develop the application on a hosted server account. The first (only) RoR tuturial I walked through, I did using vi over a SSH terminal. I expect that will get real old, real fast.
Next Step: Find development & deployment tool(s)
IDE: If you’re on Windows, RadRails (http://radrails.org - seems to be down now, though, and I just read some reference to them moving the project over to Aptana, http://aptana.com/, whatever the hell that is). On Macs, TextMate. Deployment: there is only one choice here–Capistrano (http://manuals.rubyonrails.com/read/book/17).
I was the project announcer. You’re right, the project never took off. I think we did have some very preliminary code put together but not enough to be worth building on. I strongly approve of the choice of RoR — if I were doing the project now, I would use RoR as well.
If you are ever looking for feature ideas, feel free to contact me — we had a small group that brainstormed for a while. Unfortunately the implementation just never happened.
Looks like you did what Adam did and forgot about it
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