20061208

Journey on Rails #1

Several months ago I started teaching myself Ruby on Rails. I had some experience with PHP and MySQL and thought it was kind of mechanical. When I heard about Rails I thought it sounded, well, beautiful or at least a lot less mechanical. I bought the beta Agile Rails 2nd Edition book and started going through it. That was fun but I didn't need a shopping cart. I wanted to write a "real" application. And I thought documenting it might be fun too.



I had several ideas for applications going through my head and the one that was going to be the most immediately useful was also going to be the easiest. My idea was for a custom RSS feed system that would send out a chapter a day from one of the supported volumes (all scriptural works at this point). I call it ChaptersS.



This series of posts will cover my (in-)experience with Rails.



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