This looks great, still lacking user accounts? and non US cities,
maybe you could export those from here http://www.geonames.org/ they
have xml dumps. Nice work.
This looks great, still lacking user accounts? and non US cities,
maybe you could export those from here http://www.geonames.org/ they
have xml dumps. Nice work.
Hurray!. At last I've got one feedback. Thanks a lot Aljord.
This script can be used to serve multiple countries by keeping each
country in a subdomain and by running a separate instance for each
country. This makes administration easier.
User accounts can be implemented as Rails has excellent plugins to do
it. Probably, we can include it in future releases.
At least under U.S. law, I seem to recall that designs aren't
copyrightable (certainly fonts are not, which is why font knockoffs are
possible). However, look and feel is coyrightable (or something
similar) in the case of software. This could go either way, I guess.
Love the idea, and certainly would love to go through the code.
However, I second the thoughts saying that a totally different design
should be adopted.
One idea for the landing page would be a giant Google map centered in
user's location with markers for every city
Google maps could also be integrated to draw search results in certain
categories.
You mention that this is open source, but I don't see any mention of
where to download the source code. If you really want good developer
feedback then you may want to consider GitHubbing (is that a word?)
the project which will allow us to download and play with the
software.
You mention that this is open source, but I don't see any mention of
where to download the source code. If you really want good developer
feedback then you may want to consider GitHubbing (is that a word?)
the project which will allow us to download and play with the
software.
On Aug 15, 4:44�pm, Rails List <rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net>
I am yet to release it. I will be doing it today. Before hand, I just
wanted developers/normal users feedback, so that I can be sure that
critical things work as expected.
It runs very quickly when it's working, but I did have a lot of
intermittent downtime in-between browsing (1-2 minute spurts). [note:
that may just be my ISP, a lot of sites seem to be going slow today].
For testing purposes, it might be better to just have a couple of
cities. I was unable to find any other posts so I didn't spend too
much time browsing.
I do agree that it is too similar to Craigslist (which is far from a
perfect design to begin with). However, it is a great job so far,
congrats! There are little things that still need to be worked on:
1) if a user submits a new classified, the app should auto-fill the
city and category (when possible)
3) go to the user's posting after activation
I’m curious to know what the motivation behind this was. Makes a good proof-of-concept, perhaps you’re a student?
Otherwise, I don’t see any business value in cloning what Craigslist already does. If I’m going to post an ad, I’ll use Craigslist and suspect most people would. Posting an ad on a clone site doesn’t seem worthwhile…
I'm curious to know what the motivation behind this was. Makes a good
proof-of-concept, perhaps you're a student?
Otherwise, I don't see any business value in cloning what Craigslist
already
does. If I'm going to post an ad, I'll use Craigslist and suspect most
people would. Posting an ad on a clone site doesn't seem worthwhile...
Robby
There is no business motive behind this. Having said that, it can be
used for business purposes if one wants to.
can extract the archive with linux unzip for some reason
xeno@amrita:~/incoming$ unzip railslist-v1.0.zip
Archive: railslist-v1.0.zip
End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is
not
a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In
the
latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found
on
the last disk(s) of this archive.
unzip: cannot find zipfile directory in one of railslist-v1.0.zip or
railslist-v1.0.zip.zip, and cannot find railslist-
v1.0.zip.ZIP, period.
winrar works though. do you have a finnicky FTP client? (i'm usually
using some sort of scp when developing from Windows though, mayhaps
you should to?)
Also, the zip on your site looks to be missing tests. Maybe you
accidentally left these out when creating the zip ??