Nancy hit the ground running, whereas I ground to a halt. Ruby worked fine. Rails worked fine. Mysql worked fine. Rails wouldn’t talk to Mysql, though. After much head scratching, cursing, and frantic searching for liquor… I hit upon the crux of the problem. While I was installing the mysql gem… it wasn’t getting used. /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/mysql.rb was! To quote @thebloggess “The Fuck, Victor?!”

So a quick

sudo mv /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/mysql.rb /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/fucking-bogus-mysql.rb

later (with the mysql gem installed) I was up & running. A bunch of Ruby, Erb, CSS, and Javascript later and it’s looking pretty good.

All my blogging energies have gone into the EngineYard blog for the last while.

This is a just a note to say that Nancy & I are once again taking part in the rails rumble. This time focussing on getting shit done. Pure & simple. No detailed design or up front thinking.. just a general idea. No testing, think it up & code it up. And now we’re past the half way point and things are taking shape nicely.

We’re having fun and it’s something that might be fun to hack at afterward.