but here is what i learned along my first real week of making something in rails
1. set up svn early. if you’re working alone on leopard and don’t need remote svn service, that’s easy.
svnadmin create file://SVN_PATH
svn import WORKING_DIRECTORY file://SVN_PATH
svn checkout FILES file://SVN_PATH
2. update and build whatever you need. again, for leopard users, i just followed the instructions at hivelogic. i built mysql and made little executable scripts to run the start and stop server commands in their instructions. i don’t know enough about how to build a pref pane but maybe sometime soon?
3. rails documentation is total shit. seriously. more on that later. i actually found that the agile book sucked ass. they don’t really explain how to do basic things before having you build this depot shopping thing.
sorry if this bores the shit of non-nerd, non-programming people out there. i used to like programming but rails has taken some of that love away, because it’s too hack-y. it is very fast to do stuff in once you know what you’re doing, but i get this feeling that the whole thing wasn’t particularly well-planned.