12.28.05
rubyGreg: Learning Rails
The time has finally come for me to jump on the Rails-wagon and learn Ruby on Rails. I will document here my efforts to port the fabulous Gregarius feed aggregator to Ruby. I admit this is not a tutorial for the complete novices, and definitely of no use to a seasoned Rails developer, unless they enjoy a good laugh. In particular, I am assuming that you have glanced at the standard tutorials here and here, as well as Amy Hoy’s wonderful list of articles on her site. I am sure there are other worthwhile tutorials out there, and you can probably find them documented at the wiki.
So to recap, I am assuming that you have Ruby and Rails installed and you have two terminal windows open, as well as your favorite editor ready to work on any file in the directory we are about to create, and of course your favorite browser open, so that we can view our results. Also keep in mind that whatever is presented here is my view on things, and it might very well be incomplete/inaccurate. Please feel free to correct me. This might also be an opportune moment to have a look at the Gregarius source code, to have some idea what we are trying to replicate. Of course for now we’ll only do some small bits of the overall monster.
Ready? Alright then, on with the show!
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