Where’s the peanut butter?!

So I’m trying out ruby on rails and so far it’s living up to the
hype. The href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/01/20/rails.html">onlamp
overview covers all the components needed to get a working install and
runs over a sample application to create a recipe recording system.

I modified the sample application to make it a hockey tracking team
since this makes it a little more interesting and I have the idea
Tanya might find it useful some time and by far the hardest part of
the work was getting the environment set up. After that, rails has
script templates for generating your presentation layer, business
logic, and incredible connectors for hooking into a database
application. You can basically “scaffold” everything and then build
up around that framework where and as needed. I wish that the emacs
ruby mode were a little more full-featured but it’s perfectly capable
for me for now and ought to be easy enough to improve. I look forward
to checking out more of this.