I decided to set my next site on Ruby on Rails…
After spending AGES trying to set it up…
I thought that there was something wrong with my Rails installs (and re-installs).
I was working from Beginning Rails by Apress. The book is pretty old and it turns out that SQL lite is no longer packaged with rails and the basic example was bombing out and I didn’t realise it…
The discovery of the log/test.txt was instrumental… wish that had been mentioned in the book.
This change in Rails wasn’t to be the last pain in my arse it seems… The way rails does scaffolding has changed completely it seems, so another 2 hours later I find an open Internet place (tropical island remember?) and I have a working tutorial (http://fairleads.blogspot.com/2008/01/this-is-second-part-of-my-series.html) for Rails 2.
And I see the fruit of my first rails scaffolding setup… I must say it’s beautiful!
I’m sure I’ll be finding a few more things that don’t work in ‘Beginning rails’, but ‘Beginning Rails 3′ will be out in March 2010 (next month), so I’ll probably make a move on that asap.
