Great site! Any reason why you used ROR for the front end instead of web2py?
On Jun 26, 7:39 am, weheh <richard_gor...@verizon.net> wrote: > My first web2py app is now live! It is a proprietary court > reservations system developed exclusively for SPiN New York. SPiN is a > hot new ping-pong club in New York City backed by Susan Sarandon and > others (including me -- talk about putting your money where your mouth > is!). Club members can reserve courts via a member's interface, or in- > house via a concierge interface. > > This is a production implementation of a system that melds web2py in a > back-end role and ROR in a front-end GUI role. The reservations > system's database, administrative and api interfaces are all > implemented with web2py on top of MySQL and behind Apache. The ROR > front-end app calls the web2py interface, which returns json > datastructures. > > To say that this went smoothly is an understatement. This was my first > web2py app and, thanks to the help of this community and Massimo, I > was able to single-handedly build the system in short order. The > integration with the front-end team went very smoothly and required a > minimum of communication. > > Concept to production release and taking our first orders online took > less than 5 human-weeks effort expended over a 3 month calendar > period. That was twice as long as I anticipated, but it happened > because the spec changed a couple of times and because I was on the > steep part of the web2py learning curve. > > The only irritation I encountered was the json writer that choked on > datetime fields. It still doesn't seem to work as expected. The > simplejson dumps routine will output datetimes in some datastructures, > but not others. My datastructures have dicts of dicts of dicts with > datetimes in all sorts of places. The workaround was to convert > datetimes to strings -- annoying but affective. > > Bottom line -- web2py ROCKS! You guys rock! And Massimo, you rock! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py Web Framework" group. To post to this group, send email to web2py@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
