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I'm looking at creating a web app (similar functionality to kickstarter)
However i'm not a programmer and my knowledge is very minimal & i'm looking for one to help.
I'm about to post this on freelancer, should the project be built in RoR or Django?
What is the quickest + the best quality?
Thanks for your help
Jake
Here you go, a Kickstarter Clone: https://github.com/lockitron/selfstarter.
If you're thinking about what the project should be built in, Django or RoR, both of which are great choices, then you should really consider the strengths of who will help you. If that person has more experience with RoR, then RoR. If they have more experience with Django, then Django. At such an early stage in a project, deciding between great frameworks that will get the job done is micro-optimization that could wait a while (I don't think there are many if any drawbacks between choosing one over the other performance-wise). Thus, the choice should come from team dynamics and what the team building the product is most comfortable with.
In this case, you don't have a team, but if you were to find someone or some people, and they were all proficient in RoR, then RoR would be the clear choice. If, on the other hand, you are planning on learning web development, and are asking which you should learn, my personal choice would be RoR.
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I once build a webshop in Rails using the Spree framework. This was great since everything I needed for a webshop came out of the box. Now I want to make a website for people who organize dance parties. The site should have information of the new line-up and location, pictures/videos of older parties, and the possibility to buy new tickets.
I hope if you think of something that can be used which is like what Spree is for a webshop but then for the above requirements I would be very happy if you could share it with me.
Thanks for your help.
Rails is a good framework for this.
Meaning I can't think of anything premade to help you accomplish this, but it doesn't sound difficult to do from scratch.
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I've been looking at creating themes for wordpress, but I'm not a fan of PHP. I'd rather use Rails.
Does anyone know of a blogging engine written using Rails?
http://radiantcms.org/
http://www.enkiblog.com/
https://github.com/fdv/typo/wiki/
There are a couple of blog engines written using rails. Kalyan M highlighted a few good ones. Here are a couple more for you to consider based upon your needs:
Refinery CMS
I tested this cms before and really like how simple it is to use. In fact, RailsCast did a really nice video on how to install and use this. http://railscasts.com/episodes/332-refinery-cms-basics
Browser CMS
I have not used this before but my fellow non-dev friend who used it really like that it is non-dev friendly.
Locomotive CMS
Radiant CMS
This is one of the oldest Rails cms out there. It has a large amount of extensions contributed by the community and is constantly improving. I would recommend that you test this out.
Good luck!
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I am fairly new to Rails and I have never developed a large application. A friend of mine and I are developing two separate applications and we found out we both have a need for a way to generically manage pricing / discount rules.
Scenario:
Say you have a conference registration application and depending on who uses the application, they may choose to offer different pricing plans.
$50 1 attendee
$40 >5 attendees
Exhibitor gets 3 free attendees and $30 each additional
Instead of baking in the specifics of these rules, it would be nice to abstract it in some way so rules can change over time and by conference.
What are the best practices for handling this? Are there Rails plugins? We have both searched, but have yet to find the solution.
I think you should have a look at RuleBy. I haven't used it myself, but am still meaning to find the time to experiment with it. It should solve precisely these problems.
I also don't know of an existing plugin for this but since you have at least two apps that need this why not try and make it a rails engine?
That way you and your friend can halve your effort and have something you can open source and show off and improve via community feedback.
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Does anyone know of a good tutorial or application for asking and answering questions for Ruby on Rails, much like this site (although it probably will be for a very different purpose in the end)?
If you're serious about building this application, I can only suggest to just learn Ruby on Rails and build it yourself, instead of looking for a tutorial. There's plenty of great learning material, and assuming you've got a decent understanding of programming in Ruby, Rails is incredibly easy to get started with. As far as books go, Agile Web Development with Rails definitely gets my recommendation.
Either way, the Rails Guides are probably a good first read, It'll help you understand the basics of MVC and how to build a simple Rails app, so you can jump in and start building your own application. If you run into any problems down the road, post your questions here and I'm sure you'll get the answer you're looking for.
Even if tutorials existed for building every kind of application, knowing what's going on and how to architect your application around your specific needs is really important.
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I am looking for good tutorials that go through every step of creating an AR application. It would be beneficial if it also covers some of the theory behind optics and such.
A good setup is to use ARToolKit plus osgART.
The tutorial of ARToolKit also explains also some of the principles of Computer Vision:
http://www.hitl.washington.edu/artoolkit/documentation/
osgART is the ARToolKit for OpenSceneGraph and abstracts some of the principles of using a computer vision based tracking in a scenegraph application
Both toolkits have a large and vibrant development community.
MXRToolkit have good documentation and is suitable for beginner. There are some other toolkits too.
http://mxrtoolkit.sourceforge.net/
Not a trivial learning curve but OpenScenegraph is probably the main FOSS app for large applications like flight simulators.
I haven't used it but it might be worth looking at: http://developer.qualcomm.com/ar