Eamonn Faherty

I have been learning Ruby on Rails! I think it is pretty awesome!

I wanted to make a tool for work which helped managing flash releases. We have many projects and releasing individual projects is hard to track and to manage.

I started writing this in Flex but figured I would either need to have a sqllite db on a network drive or have to set up a server to handle the storage of the data. With this in mind I decided to shift my efforts to Ruby on Rails, which is perfect for this kind of stuff. Plus, as it is a back office app, it doesnt matter that it looks crappy (this is not me saying rails creates ugly pages, it is me saying I havent got that far).

I bought the Agile web development with Rails book when it first came out and never got round to reading it. Two or three years later I now think this was a bit of a mistake. The rails framework is great for getting pages up and running quickly with database connectivity. It has great tools for automating the creation of crappy admin apps. The only thing I can compare it to is http://phpforms.net/ which is also a great system.

I am now getting my head around Active Record, which is the area of rails concerned with models and relationships. It is pretty powerful and quite intuitive. I am still struggling getting my relations to propagate right down to the dbms layer. I think I might need some hacking. Oh well, thats it for now. I may be releasing this to the public once it is done but don’t expect it to be bullet proof! Once this is finished I will be starting on another project to help with testing but that is still to come!

Hey all,

Sorry I have not posted for a long, long time.

I have been very busy with wedding plans, learning flex and just about keeping up with life in general.

I have been to Flash In The Can, Amsterdam 2009! It was awesome. I was a little skeptical but the talks were inspirational and I am really glad I went. I met a couple of people from Adobe and they seem like really nice people. There was definitely an underlying tone of “Flex is Flash”. Ha Ha! I guess this has come about from the different approach from Adobe and the reaction from developers. The average joe lazy ass actionscripter is shuning flex saying it is not really flash. WTF?!? What idiots.

I am going to be starting up the CheckstyleAS3 project again soon and a new php/flex(which is flash) project.

I will post more details later in the week.

Also, catch me on twitter (eamonnfaherty)

Cya