Finished Book/Sample App

After a few months, I have finally finished the book and sample app.  I have learned so much about test driven development, and ruby on rails.  I feel like a pro, although obviously working out of a book and doing it in real life are slightly different.  

I am way behind schedule of my original deadlines I made myself at the beginning of this, but I made it through and that is what is important.  From now on rather than setting myself up for failure by giving myself deadlines that are hard to meet, I am going to try and give my self goals and just hit them as milestones.  I am also going to split everything into small tasks.  

Here are some updates/screens of the final app, which you can view here. Feel free to create an account and make some posts, all the passwords are encrypted and not view-able in their normal form, not even by logs so you can feel secure.

I also updated my IDE from gedit, which was getting rather annoying, I am now using eclipse with aptana studio 3.  This is much nicer, and way easier to get up and working.

Now that this is done I am free to start working on my site.  This is going to take a bit longer as now I am not working out of a book and need to figure things out, design, and come up with the ideas on my own.

In order to do this, I will be following an Agile Software development process, particularly SCRUM.  In which I will have many iterations, break each piece down into user stories with priorities and estimates, and have monthly sprints where I work on only a few pieces at a time.  This will help me get a lot done without being overwhelmed.  I can do it piece by piece.  More specifics on this will follow as I document the process.

Thanks for reading!