Hacking Journal [2006/01/28]
h3. Agile Web with Rails and My Web New Engine
[2006/01/28]
Just finished up the tutorial in Agile Web Development with Rails l for the second time. This time around, everything worked and I was able to pick up some great pointers. I also have been reading the reference sections more now and have been bookmarking every page where I find something useful. Needless to say I have 20-odd bookmarks just from a few chapters. It really helps the learning curve to have a working project where you can implement the ideas you find immediately. That is one reason why I am going to build my own blog/website engine, I need a non-work project to teethe on.
For the web engine, I have brainstormed some ideas and made some simple drawings of what the UI should look like on the major pages. I have a simple CSS setup and the skeleton structure so I should be able to add in the features I need soon. I want to implement a few things before I actually take it live here, most notability:
- Content - no brainer here
- Categories - I want to classify the content
- Redirect Controller - I want to be able to redirect any old links to the new pages, this way I don’t have to worry about 404’s from old links
- RSS - Needs feeds for the content, changes to the content, and then comments.
- Textile support - I like textile
Those are the main ‘required’ features I want before I take it live here. I will try to flesh out some more ideas later on for everyone to check out.
Eric Davis
