Posted by Ken
OVERVIEW
Vince and Ken met at Open City cafe in the Woodley Park Neighborhood for a few hours.
SUMMARY
Two members meet for 30 minutes to discuss PHP and Rails.
DETAILS
- December 17, 2005. Two members, thirty minutes.
- After 3pm, Open City on a Saturday is much less crowded. Vince made a pitch for Soho cafe in Dupont Circle as a meeting place, and warns us of the second hand smoke.
- Discussion revolved around other DC rubyists and ruby usage in the metro region. We reviewed a shopping cart Ruby on Rails application on Vince's laptop. Vince handed off a Breezey Badger Ubuntu distribution CD to Ken.
- Vince spoke about his travails in running PHP and Ruby with Ruby on Rails--the solution involved Lighttpd, a small http daemon. Ken and Vince made a few stabs at solving some shopping cart problems on a Rails Shopping Cart app while in the cafe. The problem centered around how to update the checkout page when customer buys more than one item.
- Vince highlighted Graham Glass' blog. Graham discusses his experiences in porting a PHP web app (nonJava) to Rails. Ken will cold-call email Graham, in an effort to peak Graham's interest in AMRUG. Graham appears to be typing his blog within a mile of Open City cafe.
RESOURCES
Graham Glass Blog, porting PHP to Rails.
