Write a rails app in 24 hours

while this would be fun, I’m already working on a few Rails apps and that’s fine with me.

why not…

For me, it takes more than 24 hours to decide what to write. To actually write it in 24hrs…. not happening. At least not now.

It was exciting to see the application grow from just a concept into a completed work in such a short period of time. The task was to create an application which could create a decision tree based on a database of examples. The decision tree then could be used to decide whether a car is a good family car or not.
I decided to take the task to the next level by generalizing. So one could upload a decision domain with attributes to decide on and all the examples too. This required a more complicated database schema and trickier queries but this is a thing Rails is very good at. So the whole application with data and testing was completed in less than twenty-two hours. It is amazing.

I enjoyed it a lot, at least compared to ColdFusion and PHP. I’m interested in evaluating Django now. Has anyone used that framework?

didn’t finish, but I learned more than I’ve learned in any of my classes this year!

I ended up trying to get up at 1:30 in the morning and getting started. HUGE mistake.

http://blog.objo.com/archives/17-Crashed-and-Burned.html

That was a blast. An absolute blast.

Like a bunch of others, I participated in Railsday and managed to get a full app done in about 18 hours of coding (I’m weak, I slept).

Shameless plug of demo site: http://tat.bleything.net!

I’ve done a database report (skinned CRUD with user permission) for my job. Rails really rox!