the greatness of online tutorials

A somewhat grandiouse title but hey, dont you just love it when things just work? A slow evening lead to following two tutorials at once, the outcome I now have andy budd’s fab iTunes playlists set up and I have rails running on my host. Woo Hoo.

I love working things out and generally dont mind things ending up not working even but sometimes it’s nice when everything takes only a small amount of time and effort and then works. A sense of acomplishment, and admiration, if you will.

Oh, proof of the rails pudding: morethanseven.net:3000/ WEBrick at the moment, FastCGI is for another day, hopefully soon. And before you ask, I didn’t just copy the source from a local install. Really.

The tutorial I followed for that I grabbed from xmlareas.com/ruby-rails-howto.html which might be of use on a range of reasonable shared hosting environments – though remember to remomve the temp directory as it will contain LOTS of files that may flag some hosting file limits.

Makes me want to write some sort of how to articles on some subject or other. Question on a post card is what?

So a big thanks for Andy’s rather geeky approach to cataloging music (my librarian housemate is going to love that) and to goldenratio (probably not a real name?) for the Rails article. Long live the Internet and all that.