New Project, Old Hacks
[2006/01/10]
Today was yet another busy day in my Rails world. Between building up the new website for my work to trying to start my own from scratch, I am beat. At work I finally got a full access limits coded in and tested. Over 1200 lines of tests for 400 lines of code, pretty ratio. I think doing a time rake test_all turned out at about 8 seconds on my Dell 700m. I think tomorrow I will be adding in some ActionMailer to send emails when there is new content that needs approval.
On the home-front, I decided to custom code my own website. I have been debating between doing a Ruby on Rails blog (similar to Typo but more lightweight) or a custom Rake generated one (similar to Martin Fowler's). I am prototyping the Rails one but something is telling me to do the Rake version instead. Heres a quick breakdown chart as of now:
| Rails Version | Rake Version |
| Database backed | html generated files |
| Dynamic pages | Static html |
| Comments allowed | No comments |
| Must run on FCGI | Can run anywhere |
| Good learning experience in Rails | Good learning experience in "Ruby":http://www.ruby-lang.org |
| nil | Improve yaml skills |
| Could Open Source Project | Too Custom to Open Source |
I dunno what I will go with, I am leaning to the Rails version but I will know in a few days.
Eric Davis
