11-27-2008
Lessons learned from side work
I recently finished up a website for a fellow that got a hold of me through a friend. He needed somebody to create a whole website for him and he had the design setup for me already (if you know me I can’t visually design anything for the life of me). At first I decided to do it in PHP with the Akelos framework. That had a little bit of a learning curve, but was able to get it all completed and running on my personal machine. The problems came when loading it up to the hosting service. After a long fight I found out that Akelos didn’t handle cgi/fcgi. That got me fuming. I had to totally redo the whole sight some other way. I ended up doing a ruby on rails sight knowing i could get that up and running because they advertised it. That went well until I went to check on the site and it wasn’t running. Found out the hosting service updated their rails version and didn’t keep their older version around. If you are curious about the site its ring of your dreams. The main lesson I’ve learned from this is test your production deployment early to make sure you can do what you’re planning on instead of scrapping a complete site.
Posted by Blake Bigelow in Blogroll, akelos, development, rails | RSS 2.0