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I just built my first Rails app and this is how I did it

48 points| mehulkar | 14 years ago |mehulkar.tumblr.com | reply

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[+] rnernento|14 years ago|reply
I tried the referenced app, it pulled up a description and I clicked "Meh" then it didn't do anything. Meh.
[+] mehulkar|14 years ago|reply
not sure what's going on. some other people had the same experience. I'll try to fix it as soon as I can.
[+] ndubya|14 years ago|reply
So I'm learning Rails myself and I'm nervous about the whole deploy to Heroku part / the cost of hosting a small app. Did you have to buy additional Dynos to handle the traffic from HN? $35 for an additional Dyno isn't the end of the world, but shared hosting for $5 a month at railsplayground is a whole lot cheaper for a humble junior developer like me.

The site looks great! Congrats on your first app launch!

[+] mehulkar|14 years ago|reply
nope, haven't paid for anything yet. I'm excited to see how much traffic HN actually brought. Looks like close to 10,000 votes have been registered in a few short hours, but waiting for Google Analytics to catch up to see more.
[+] websymphony|14 years ago|reply
Right now it is throwing 500 error on submitting a vote.
[+] mehulkar|14 years ago|reply
hmmm... maybe a database error. I will take a look and get back to you.
[+] __abc|14 years ago|reply
I'm guessing you did > rails new appname

no?

[+] mehulkar|14 years ago|reply
yes? should I have done something differently?
[+] mhd|14 years ago|reply
"Web Ninja Bootcamp"? (I was actually surprised that that wasn't the official title. Go figure.)
[+] mehulkar|14 years ago|reply
I've been saying the words "Dev Bootcamp" so much I got bored with the actual title. So I took the liberty. :)
[+] amalag|14 years ago|reply
Nice app, I like it, hotornot for startups ;-)