Problems to Solve
1. I need a place to show my Rails work
2. It is sometimes difficult to see the design goals of agile software that is deployed early and often if it is incomplete.
Ideas to Solve the Problem with Web Application Software
- list all of the public Rails projects I'm working on
- describe the problem and design goals in detail so people can try early versions of websites in context
- regularly compile statistics about the projects (rake stats, rcov, # of users, etc).
- show statistics over time as the site grows
Research Goals
- high page caching
- Capistrano
- SEO and Google Analytics, conversion tracking
? mongrel
- Rails 2.0.x
Features of the Deployed Implementation
- projects and plugins are listed
- a Rails website instead of static text or CMS for design flexibility
- output from statistics tools (like rake stats, rcov) are stored and displayed
Ideas Left to Implement
- reports of statistics over time
- compare all of the Rails projects in a matrix
Possible Extensions
- forums for feedback
- an admin UI for editing
- acts_as_versioned for text