Hi, another blog. Sorry.
Still, at least this one is intended to be useful to anyone thinking of giving Rails a try. We recently started from scratch, not knowing Ruby or Rails. We chose Rails as a framework for prototyping our dabblings, partly to try something new, partly to try out a ‘happening’ technology, partly to make our CVs more buzzword compliant. Its been interesting/frustrating so far, and would have been even more so without direct input from the calm and wise Matt Biddulph, and lots of googling for blog entries explaining how to deal with each issue as it arose.
The available documentation is sort of ok, ish, maybe, as long as you know what questions to ask, but does not adequately help unveil the ropes and pulleys behind the magic of it-just-(doesn’t quite always)-work(s) Rails. To be honest, the documentation has been our biggest winge, mitigated to a large extent by the many helpful Rails blogs out there. You can get down and dirty with the Ruby code underlying Rails, and the layers of Rails configurations, which is a good thing, but only if you understand what you are looking at, which mostly we didn’t.
This blog will act for a while as a jotter for assorted difficulties wot we have succumbed to, googled after, and possibly even recovered from. Nothing earthshaking, but if we can spare Those Who Come After a few hours of fruitless mongrel_rails restarts, we can consider our karmic debt decreased a notch.
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