New Rails site launch - MeandmyCity.com

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Hello List,

I am proud to announce my new online service I have launched recently. It is an online business directory listing that is focused on serving people in their immediate community.

I also want to acknowledge and thank the many contributors on this list for many useful technical rails tips.

I encourage you to use our site and would welcome any feedback, including how the site can be improved further.

Best regards,

--Long

http://mobile.MeandmyCity.com/ - for handheld devices

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I like the clean look of your website. Looks like you have built in some nice features like search, maps, email etc. Can you share with us some things about your appplication like what database backend you are using and who is hosting the site for you?

Thanks, Paul

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Quick, everyone slag this guy for announcing his rails site! :stuck_out_tongue:

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Paul Corcoran wrote:

I like the clean look of your website. Looks like you have built in some nice features like search, maps, email etc. Can you share with us some things about your appplication like what database backend you are using and who is hosting the site for you?

Hi Paul,

Thank you for the positive feedback and I don't mind sharing the system architecture.

The production server (Linux) runs Rails 1.1.6+FCGI+Apache 1.3 with MySQL 5 database. I think this is a fairly standard setup for Rails.

I do host with an ISP but only for connectivity to the net. The server is my own and I colocate it at their data centre. I will admit it was more work for me to configure and manage the server, but I prefer it that way (and it was a good learning experience too).

If you have any other questions feel free to ask.

Cheers!

Long

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LOL, somehow I was expecting this ... just hope I can be forgiven.

Long

subimage interactive wrote:

Quick, everyone slag this guy for announcing his rails site! :stuck_out_tongue:

> > > Hello List, >

[snip]

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Aa Aa wrote:

How did you set up your templates? I am fishing for a good solution here :).

Well I didn't do anything fancy. Just two layouts/ templates with content_for_layout to bring in action views. I use CSS for layout and it allows me to easily swap stylesheet file base on the request subdomain.

There are probably other solutions but it really depends on your requirement. Mine is just to try and make the most of what Rails has to offer and so far I am happy with it.

Also the border around the image on the top is squished in Safari.

Ugh... I have tested with specific versions of Firefox and IE but not Safari nor Opera (or others?). Thank you for pointing this out. Would you know what could be the cause in Safari? Perhaps I will have to grab Safari and work it out.

Cheers!,

Long

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jzakiya wrote:

Long wrote:

[snip]

> Ugh... I have tested with specific versions of Firefox and IE but not Safari nor > Opera (or others?). Thank you for pointing this out. Would you know > what could be the cause in Safari? Perhaps I will have to grab Safari and work it out. >

I suggest you first try it with Konqueror, which come with KDE. Its KHTML rendering engine is what Safari based on, so that may give you a clue as to how it is rendered in Safari.

Thanks for the good suggestion Jabari. I realized after the last post I didn't have a Mac to run Safari on (hic-cup) :-\

Long

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couldn’t see an obvious way to navigate to the Events Calendar? i.e. saw how to add an event?

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Greg Hauptmann wrote:

couldn't see an obvious way to navigate to the Events Calendar? i.e. saw how to add an event?

Hi Greg,

Right, I guess my events listing is somewhat unconventional as I don't have a calendar with links to events by date. I will try to explain below.

Events and listings are local to a city or community, so for Ottawa one can add an event using this link:

If you wish to add an event for another city, that community will have to be created on MeandmyCity.com first.

A newly submitted event goes through an approval process and will list once it is approved (on the city home page). Other factors also affect when it is listed for example if today is the same or after the event_list_date. Once an event expires it will fall off the list. In this way events are listed and expired dynamically for the current date.

If there are many events on the list they will be paged with the upcomming ones first.

I suppose it might be clearer if I had some events listed...

Long

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jzakiya wrote:

[snip]

I suggest you first try it with Konqueror, which come with KDE. Its KHTML rendering engine is what Safari based on, so that may give you a clue as to how it is rendered in Safari.

Jabari,

Now that I have a chance to look at it with Konqueror (3.5.4) I didn't see the described problem as reported with Safari. So I am still kind a stuck without having access to Safari :frowning:

Thanks for the suggestion though,

Long

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You can use

http://www.browsrcamp.com/

to display safari screenshots

many greetings, sudara

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Whoops!

That first link is:

http://www.danvine.com/icapture/

sudara

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sudara wrote:

Whoops!

That first link is:

http://www.danvine.com/icapture/

Hi,

This link works for the main page but can't seem to handle pages with query string parameters. At least the main page looked like it should so I still don't see a display problem with Safari.

http://www.browsrcamp.com/

I was not able to get this service to work at all. Keep getting an error.

Thanks for the suggestions,

Long