Railz
Well, this is inaugural post for the lab site. I managed to find a day to put it all together. Things were getting kinda schizo as I had about 5 different versions of this site kicking around, mostly done with PHP and one with Python but I decided to give Rails a poke for this one.
Rails is ok, I have to admit. Wasn’t much when I first looked at it a few years ago when the hype machine went off, but it has come a long way. Took me as long to get the thing configured on this host as it took to actually build the site tho. That was kind of disturbing. I’m doing the dev work on Mac and Apple manages to screw up most every open source install they do so I wonder if I would have more success if I installed it locally myself. To be seen I guess. See how it fairs in production mode. I sure don’t want to have to go though all that nonsense every time I do an update on the code.
Ruby has some nice language sugar however. I’m thinking about porting the Python SL client to ruby and see how that goes.