Release of Donebox, by Marc-André Cournoyer

By Heri Jul 31st 2007 in Design

With his company’s founders going happily to San Francisco, Marc-André Cournoyer has found the time to make yet another rails application, which is a to-do list manager.

donebox

Of course, anyone can create a task manager, I did one recently and took 5 days to create it. What I found impressive is that he finished everything, from design to deployement in 2 days, a feat that I believe can be only done with the Rails framework. I am now wondering if it’s possible to launch a very simple website (say à la digg.com) in a couple of hours, if you already have all the specs and can just code right away.

This also shows me that Ruby gurus go on holidays by coding a rails application. I think you can’t go hardcore beyond that. :-)

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macournoyer July 31, 2007

Thanks for the link Heri.

The thing with digg is the algorithm for sorting the links… that’s really tought

Rails is sure fast, Camping can be even faster for smallish sites.

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Heri July 31, 2007

of course you can’t get the same algorithm as digg uses but I was talking about a simple algorithm that counts the speed of votes a link get in a preset timespan, which can be done with a simple SQL statement

do you plan the rails apps you code by the way, or it just happenned friday, like hey i should do a to do list manager?

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macournoyer July 31, 2007

No plan really, just a vision of what I want it to look like. Friday I though it would be cool to change task date by dragging them, all the rest emerged while I was coding.

And linkr was coded in a weekend too, but the algorithm pretty much sucks: find_all_by_score in http://code.macournoyer.com/svn/linkr/trunk/linkr/models.rb

What alowed me to deploy fast was really capistrano (http://capify.org/). Oh capistrano! I love you, xx

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bielizna erotyczna January 24, 2011

I didn’t quite understand this when I first feature it. But when I went through it a 2nd time, it all became unmistakable. Thanks for the brainwave. Absolutely thing to think about.

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