(Instant Rails) My adventures in Ruby #7
I forgot to mention that I did have one proud moment... and that was installing
InstantRails... and I even got it to work via their instructions.
It wasn't terribly easy... and I'm not sure what i actually do with it now.
But that's not the point.
The point is I was successful at something, and that almost makes all this effort worth it.
I think I'd rather pay someone to come to my computer and set it all up for me. Give me the nice user interface of rails and just make it all nice and neat and ready to go... so then I can start dinking around.
Even better make me my application and I can study how it went and pretend I might be able to know what's going on. In fact why don't i just stick to photography?
Maybe i'll try again later.
(Eureka!?!) My Adventure in Ruby #5
Eureka! Have I found it?
74 Quality Ruby on Rail Resources
Initial thoughts: It looks well organized. It approaches many of my concerns, it gives me automatic install sites and seems to go down the list of things I might need later.
Basically I will take a look and see if i can Unconfuse myself of all the junk i've looked at so far.
(What is the First step?) My Adventures in Ruby #4
I change my mind...
I don't think figuring out how to get things running on bluehost really should be my first step.
After all I'm a long ways away from creating an app that will be runnable enough to put online.
So now I think I either need to figure out how to install things on Vista to get it running.
Or maybe just get the old computer running some form of Ubuntu again.
We'll see.
I wish someone out there just would tell me what's up and why
(Bluehost) My Adventures in Ruby #3
Don't know if this is the best way to go about it...
But i was watching the training videos on Lynda.com
I had a hard time paying attention and he was using a Mac (I am not)
And I didn't really get around to installing RoR on the computer.
Ruby on Bluehost
I've notice that Bluehost.com, My webhost... has lots of helps for Ruby.
So i decided that maybe the best option is to see what other people using Ruby on Bluehost were doing.
(Lynda) My adventure into Ruby – #2
Lynda.Com
I have used Lynda.com extensively in the past for help learning about photoshop and several other programs.
It helped when I was getting better at photo editing...
And also when I was creating my own simple photography website
Lynda.com is an online database of video tutorials.
It presently costs $25 a month... and though I had it for a long time on the first experience I only have 2-3 weeks of decently free time this time around.
My adventure into Ruby – #1
Long time Coming
So I've hear of and been interested in Ruby on Rails for quite some time now.
I have a week or two of more or less free time until I start getting overloaded with photo shoots again.
I thought about documenting my steps and things I did to help and if you feel so inclined tell me what I should have done instead or what could be my next steps.
Maybe CakePHP
I must say that I don't know why I insist on Ruby on Rails.
I do like the idea of how easy it might be to learn... I'm not dumb and I understand computers alright, but I just don't have the time for hardcore programming. It's not my field, not my job and it will never be.
But recently I've been hearing talk about CakePHP being another viable solution.
For one thing (the biggest thing) my programmers who are working on the Envision Project are PHP people... I'm sure I could get more help if I went with a PHP option. And they are even considering porting the project to CakePHP.
What For?
Well if I learn it well enough I thought I could help maintain another photographic online web project that I hope to have finished and running by the end of August or mid september.
I would like it to be done in RubyOnRails and if I know some stuff i could perhaps help with maintainance.
LINKS
I thought it would be a place I could store some of my sources and webpages I found along the way.
Maybe even write some summaries and my experiences with each.
