[Ruby] RoR Newbie seeks advice and a good example app to study

[Jordan Isip]

Hi Joe,

There are a bunch of open source projects listed on the RoR wiki here:
http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/OpenSourceProjects

Pointfingers.com also has their code available here:
http://home.pointfingers.com/view/code  It is probably not the best code, however, it has relatively simple code and uses a lot of basic CRUD operations. 

Good luck!

Jordan

Joe Shapiro <joeshapiro at gmail.com> wrote: Hi Folks
I'm new to RoR but would like to use it to build a data-centric site
for the Seattle filmmaking community. I have a pretty good idea of
what I'd like the site to do, and it includes typical things like
having users that own projects, projects that contain scripts,
positions (e.g. Director, Producer, Screenwriter, etc), and the
ability to see what's new, what's hot, what positions are available,
etc.

So a bunch of fairly-standard functionality for a data-driven community site.

As I said, I'm a newbie to Rails but not to programming. Though I've
been out of it for about 7 years now, I programmed extensively in C,
C++, and Lisp. I'm also a newbie at CSS and I see that HTML formatting
is old hat and CSS is now "it".

I've read most of the Agile book and the Recipes book but I feel I
still need a better grounding in what a "real" app looks like. Any
good pointers? I've just downloaded Beast - a new Rails blogger - and
it looks pretty cool. But I'm still not sure if it represents sound
Rails app structure.

Any help - including anyone who'd actually want to help me code this
thing - is much appreciated!

-- 
Joe Shapiro
Freelance FCP Editor / Director (narrative features and shorts)
http://PoliceBeatMovie.com
http://SeattleFilmmakers.com
Seattle WA
206-290-8482

"In many ways editing is trying to understand the director's vision
and then to surprise the director by going further than their vision."
Jill Bilcock, ACE
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