Current mood:	contemplative
Entry tags:	rails, ruby

I've started my own app
Well today I started my own app. I don't want to say too much about it yet. Like many sites it will have accounts with permissions for different parts of the site so I have started off working with that. It took me a bit longer than I was hoping, but not because of Rails or Ruby, but because of my inability to change my thinking. I see that there are some areas I need to learn more about. Like how stuff in rhtml files really work. That has been a bit frustrating. I love the scaffolding though. I used the code generator to create the scaffolding code for me and that helped a lot to setup pages to edit Users, Roles, and Rights. I am impressed so far. I think next weekend will be spent figuring out more the parts of the language that are still a mystery to me. Like rhtml. Once those are out of the way I think I can start on the next part of my own app. The map editor.

For any interested I got the base code for the User, Roles, and Rights from Rails Recipes from the Pragmatic Programmers ( http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/fr_rr/index.html ). Specifically I used recipes #31 and #32. I found it very easy to modify their basic concept of Rights so a right can be associated with any Action in a Controller and create a single super right that gives access to every Controller and Action.