Greenpeace on Rails
The Greenpeace International Application Development Team is currently learning Ruby on Rails by writing an application during a three-day retreat.
Yesterday we dropped by for a few hours together with Andy to help the developers get started. Because of networking issues we didn’t get as far as we’d hoped, but after a few hours everybody was at least up and running.
This morning we ran the developers through a 90-minute crash course explaining the basics of Rails. It still amazes me how PHP and Java developers suddenly get this somewhat amazed but very happy look on their face when they realize how much nicer using Rails is going to be compared to the stuff they’ve been doing before.
You can follow the efforts of the development team on their weblog.
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Ximon Eighteen about 4 hours later: (delete)
"Amazed" :) -- it's been fun, and frustrating at times mainly due to needing a certain amount of knowledge before it's clear which documentation to look in and what for.
Our "staging" instance is up and running (linked from the log) but you can't see much as of now since the login code is preventing access by anybody without an account and the mailer will act as an open relay (or so i've been told) and so isn't open until they (the developers in our team working on that story) fix that :)
The continuous integration is running but is not as useful as that created by me previously (http://smithers.greenpeace.org/buildstatus/status.xml) for another project (http://weblog.greenpeace.org/melt) so tonight I may enhance the setup we have for our Rhubarb on Rails projects so that it reports the success/failure of each automated test run after commit.
The presentation from FingerTips was great, and working with them was even better - hope we can enjoy more of their company in future. ¶