Re: Woo Hoo! First Rails App Goes Live!

kopf1988
Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:18:46 -0000

Very nice! Now, if you really want to take advantage of rails, ADD a
shopping cart, lol.

Although the link to your website "Volcanic Internet Marketing"
doesn''t work. Better buy your domain name before I do, lol.

-Ryan

On Jan 14, 1:07 pm, mel ram
<mel...-IA9i2KS8NFBpEKysQ+xqfPpXobYPEAuW@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> http://www.savitrifashions.com
>
> Hey guys,
>
> I just wanted to thank you all for your help. I just put the final
> features of v1.0 of my very first rails application. It''s an
ecommerce-
> type site without the shopping cart part. So it''s more of a
catalog.
>
> I went from thinking about doing playing w/ rails... to learning the
> basics of rails... designing mockups for a client... revising &
> getting approval on the design from client... to setting up my own
> rails web server (with slicehost)... to creating a full catalog site
> with complete admin functionality... to today... in 3 weeks. I could
> probably recreate this in 2 days now that I know how to do it.
>
> This is a testament to the power of rails!
>
> Here are the resources I used in the last 3 weeks:
> * Ruby on Rails Group on Google Groups
> * Agile Web Development With Rails book
> * RailsCasts.com
> * RailsPlus.com
> * will_paginate plugin
> * Slicehost.com web hosting (highly recommended but only if you''re
> willing to learn. it''s not easy to set up for ppl virgin to linux
but
> its doable if you can follow directions in the tutorials)
> * Articles.Slicehost.com (for setting up my web server/slice)
>
> What you think?
>
> ~ mel
>
> PS: Many of the products are currently not in the system yet. Client
> has control of that... and will be adding them "soon".