Overlord on Rails?
As I have been struggling to redefine the underlying structure of my Overlord software, I find myself ‘borrowing’ more and more concepts from Ruby on Rails. I am not stealing the code behind these ideas, I am simply following in their footsteps, so to speak. I found many of their methods and solutions to be quite useful, and have written my own versions of several, like render() and flash(), and am following the Rails MVC pattern fairly closely. Unfortunately, writting all of this new structure is taking time, even though I feel it will be worth it in the end. At times I feel it might be easier to start over from scratch and write the whole thing with Rails, but then I remember why I can’t. It can’t be distributed and used on 90% of all webservers like PHP can. Ah well, perhaps Ruby on Rails will gain enough momentum to become ’standard’ software on webservers…
In the meantime, here’s a little peak at some of the design tweaks I have been working on along with the code upgrade.
