Ruby Weekend

With all the hype with Ruby on Rails (RoR), I have decided to dive in and start development. I did a bunch of reading online and at Barnes & Nobel. I finally decided to pickup Beginning Ruby on Rails because I need to learn ruby syntax and the style the book was written.

I setup and installed Ruby a long long time ago on my powerbook, but never online. After reading that Dreamhost is the hosting company for many RoR projects and the fact they are MY hosting company, this should be a piece of cake! WRONG!!!

Well, after about 1 hour of reading and issues, I found the solution. Here is the SIMPLIEST way I found that WORKS on dreamhost.

I created a subdomain on one of my domains (for example test.yourdomain.com) using the webpanel on dreamhost. Make sure you check FastCGI Support and change the Web Directory to be home/username/test.yourdomain.com/public.
SSH into your system, type rails test.yourdomain.com. Goto www.test.yourdomain.com:3000 and you should be up and running!

I have a LOT of projects that I seem to push off due to not meeting my “expectations”, time, etc. Well with the start of a new year coming up. I plan to FINISH every project I start and try and launch one each month (or sooner!). RoR should be great for this due to the fact I can get a project up and working, FAST! Then go back and make it “perfect” if it should make a buck or becomes popular.

The first project I am focusing on just makes sense to use RoR. The idea of using scaffolding to start it, is genius. The fact I can add 2 to 10 lines of code and have a working MVC of a web form and reading/writting all the info into a mysql databas! mmm RoR!
So this weekend I hope to get this project up, launched and post the URL here. Until then, off to code some RoR!

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