Converted to Ruby on Rails at Bluehost
Monday, April 21, 2008
Well, I got the site converted to Ruby on Rails. Nothing elaborate, I’m just serving up static pages right now, dynamically building the navigation links based on what page templates exist. I realize that there are a number of RoR CMS setups available, but I wanted to build this on my own as a learning exercise. Perhaps comments next?
Then I can follow the typical development anti-pattern of rejecting established solutions, deciding to roll my own, then abandoning my home grown version and converting to something else when the problems grow insurmountable.
Getting RoR set up on bluehost was not too difficult. Bluehost is a pretty good shared server hosting company, but they were late to get on the RoR bandwagon. It used to be hard to get Rails up and running, but they have made it quite a bit easier now, with a control panel option to set up Ruby. Installing your own gems requires that you set up your own local gem repository, so I will have to walk down that road at some point as this site grows.
Until next time,
Tom Porter