[Rails] Re: Your thoughts on Enterprise Rails

2008-12-29 Thread Wayne M
Basically from reading the book, Dan doesn't believe in the Rails Way because he hints that it lends itself to quick and dirty code; not dirty in the sense of old PHP/ASP code, but dirty in that it doesn't care about scalability from the start but as an afterthought. Although his book does seem

[Rails] Ecommerce site w/multiple subdomains

2008-12-01 Thread Wayne M
My company is looking at redoing our legacy Classic ASP storefront, and I'm thinking about doing it in Rails since the alternative is to use a PHP-based solution called Magento that, while it looks nice, is insanely abstract to the point of making me go blind (it uses a database design principle

[Rails] Looking for any e-commerce frameworks

2008-10-17 Thread Wayne M
I'm wondering if there are any decent e-commerce frameworks done in Rails that are available for general use. My company is looking at upgrading from our existing shoddy Classic ASP solution, and since I am learning Rails in my spare time I'm tempted to look at using it as a solution; right now

[Rails] Re: Looking for any e-commerce frameworks

2008-10-17 Thread Wayne M
. I have used it for a few clients, and it's pretty easy to setup and manage. http://code.google.com/p/substruct/  On Friday 17 October 2008 11:52:33 Wayne M wrote: I'm wondering if there are any decent e-commerce frameworks done in Rails that are available for general use.  My company

[Rails] time_ago_in_words is off by a day

2008-10-10 Thread Wayne M
Maybe someone can help me; I'm sure I'm just missing something silly. I have a Task model that has a due_date. In my migration it's set to a date: t.date :due_date I want to display both the actual date and a friendly format in the application, so in my view I have: p%=

[Rails] Re: time_ago_in_words is off by a day

2008-10-10 Thread Wayne M
' And change it to your timezone. On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:43 PM, Wayne M [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe someone can help me; I'm sure I'm just missing something silly. I have a Task model that has a due_date.  In my migration it's set to a date: t.date :due_date I want to display