Classified Ads

Posted by Mike Blake Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:56:00 GMT

We’ve just released the latest version of Classified Ads. It’s live at Columbia City Paper. It has two very powerfull features that are starting to appear on sites like Google and Yahoo.

One is Live Search, and the other is Live Preview.

There’s a cool book coming out, Rails Recipes that helped me out with both features. I also took a look at how both features are implemented in the software that runs this blog, Typo. (Notice the live search box at the top right.)

I’m astounded how quickly development goes with Ruby on Rails.

For one thing, I’m finally convinced that Ruby is a superior language to Java. Andy Hunt explains the efficency of Ruby well in his article Why Ruby?

Aside from the beauty and simplicity of Ruby, Rails is also the best framework I’ve worked with. It’s designed to get the job done properly, with as little redundancy as possible.

So the combination of the two Ruby and Rails, is incredible. I highly recomend them both.

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  1. Amr said 6 days later:

    Hey Michael, thanks for writing this excellent component for a community site. Do you have any instructions on integrating these in a rails setup?

    I downloaded 0.3.0 but haven't seen any readme or howto on how to get this thing going properly. I was able to get it going but how do you load all the yaml files and do basic setup standalone?

    maybe I'm not looking in the right place?

    thanks again,

    -A

  2. Mike said 12 days later:

    Hi Amr

    I see you found the instructions at http://www.apptrain.org/apptrain/show/ClassifiedInstallation . Thanks for updating them as well!

    Mike

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