Thursday, January 10, 2008

Front End, meet Back End

Yesterday and much of today I got the front end to the point where it's ready for me to start trying to integrate it with the server. As hard as I tried, i couldn't put off learning ruby/rails any longer. So starting this afternoon, I've been shoving migrations, YML fixtures, ROXML, and the like down my throat. I learned a lot today, but contributed very little.

I built up the object model that represents the "layout" portion of the PDL. Not much there, but its been a good way for me to start learning this. Finally by tonight I was generating the correct xml through Martin's badass plugin. Looks like sending JSON to the client will be a breeze with the highly-flexible to_json method that comes with Rails.

Tomorrow, I think i'll actually be able to get the Client and Server doing some interesting things.

If I hadn't waited 'till so late to blog, I'd be a bit wordier.

Goodnight.

PS. right, umm I made chicken fajitas for dinner. They were "eh".

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

how are you using to_json?