First Rails App Shipped

27Jun05

Today I launched a project I’ve been working on pretty intensely for the past week and a half. I took a perfectly good (arguably) ColdFusion application and rebuilt it from the ground up in Ruby on Rails. My goal was to match features exactly, but I couldn’t help but toss in some subtle Ajax improvements as well as clean up all the URLs for the app (more after the jump).

I’m super pleased with the outcome, and the entire process of the rebuild.

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  1. 1 Bill on June 27, 2005 said:

    Excellent! And wasn’t there some other “top secret” Rails app you were working on that you’ve yet to announce? :)

    I’m with you on TextMate as well. When I first got my iBook, I tried out BBEdit because that was supposed to be “the” editor for OS X, but something just didn’t click when using it. TextMate, however, just does it for me. Love it.

  2. 2 Mark Haliday on June 27, 2005 said:

    One issue with your new Ruby on Rails site – wordPhoto.org:

    You can currently login without entering a username or a password.

    - Mark

  3. 3 Nicholas Wright on June 27, 2005 said:

    Wasn’t sure if you were aware or not, but I’m able to click login with nothing in login or password fields on your wordphoto site and it logs me in. I’m not sure if you meant this as a sort of guest login or not, but I felt that if you weren’t aware, you should be.

  4. 4 shooperman on June 27, 2005 said:

    Thanks for sharing your experience with us! It’s certainly a great shot in the arm for folks like me who’s daring to venture into Rails too!

  5. 5 Michael Buffington on June 27, 2005 said:

    Yeah. That “login” without logging in is a bug. Easy to fix, but pretty much benign right now so I’ll wait until a bigger release to reenable some validation I have in there.

  6. 6 Andrew on June 27, 2005 said:

    “A lot of Rails advocates suggest that Rails is less impacted by feature creep than other frameworks because of the ability to make changes easily….”

    I’m confused by this: do you mean “people suggest that Rails-based projects are less impacted by feature creep” or “Rails itself is less impacted by feature creep than other app frameworks”?

  7. 7 Dave Lehman on June 27, 2005 said:

    Would you care to discuss a little more on how you built some of the features in RoR? I’m particularly interested in generating image thumbnails automatically– something I need to do in an upcoming project.

  8. 8 ylon on June 27, 2005 said:

    Same here for thumbnails. Would be interested in how to do that efficiently/properly. I’ve used php and imagemagick before and I’ve not been real happy with the aspect ratio on the imagemagick resizes.

  9. 9 Dutch Rapley on June 27, 2005 said:

    Thanks for sharing that. I’m a CF developer too (5 years). I’ve been contemplating PHP for some side projects, using the Fuseox 4 framework. Ruby has caught my attention since Rails came out. Would you mind sharing what resources you used in learning Ruby and Rails.

  10. 10 Justin Pfister on June 27, 2005 said:

    So. you made this post a while ago. Are you still like Ruby better than CF?

  11. 11 Devin on June 27, 2005 said:

    Make sure you check out the RadRails (http://www.radrails.org/) the Eclipse based Ruby on Rails editor.

    If you’ve ever used Eclipse based IDEs before (or even if you haven’t) you’ll fall in love!