Monday, October 1, 2012

Now Novel, an online book writing course

For my latest project, please check out the Now Novel website -  it's an online novel writing course designed to get you started quickly.

I had to learn how to program in ruby using ruby on rails (RoR) - I am a Java developer usually, so it was quite a steep learning curve, but very enjoyable. 

I am a new convert to to RoR and was amazed about how quick it was to get a website up and running. For front-end heavy websites, I'd definitely use RoR again. I am really glad that the initial plan of hacking together a WordPress site was abandoned. That would have been php hell!

For more information: I am using Devise for my user registration framework - awesome! Wicked wizard for all the wizards (basically the whole site) and Radar's Forem for the forum. All great libraries that I would recommend to anyone.