Fun with Ruby on Rails and other news
Posted by kheon Wed, 22 Jun 2005 21:10:00 GMT
Well, it’s been awhile since I last updated so I figured I’d update everyone (those few that actually visit this site) on what I have been up to lately.
Finally, after about two months of setup, my Linux system is finally at a point where I can start playing around with Ruby on Rails. For about the past week I have been doing just that. At first it was playing but then I decided to take all of the ASP (yeah, Active Server Pages) apps that we have where I work and port them to Rails.
This process has been pretty fun. Instead of just ripping through and getting it down I’ve decided to take a slow, methodical approach and actually learn the “Rails” way of doing things. Thankfully this has still be a pretty fast moving process. I’ve had a few hiccups along the way but nothing all that major, the Rails framework really is all about getting things done quickly and effeciently.
I have been eagerly following all the Ruby/Rails blogs I know of and after having some dissatisfying experiences with a commercial content management system (CMS) that we are implementing at work I’ve been really thinking about writing one myself, however I know there is no way I could take on something like that by myself so I have joined the RailFrog project. Right now I’m just kind of sitting on the sidelines, listening as I am just learning how to do things in the world of Ruby and Rails plus it’s still very early in the project planning.
In other news, my daughter graduated preschool a few weeks back and can’t wait to start kindergarten in the fall. My son just finished up 1st grade. Also, in regards to my son, he is just a month shy of testing for his Black Belt in Taekwondo and he has improved considerably in the last month or so.
Today is my wife’s 30th. We threw her a surprise birthday party two weekends ago which was a lot of fun. My daughters birthday was yesterday which we celebrated last Saturday.
We have watched a ton of movies, I’ve just been too lazy to write up a review for any of them. Speaking of movies, damn there is just too many good movies in the theater. The wife and I want to get out and see Star Wars: Episode III, Batman Begins, War of the Worlds, and Fantastic Four but that will be tough, too many movies too close together. We need a sitter every weekend for a month which just isn’t realistic.