I’m just starting with Og. I love the way it’s put together and the way
it
feels to work with it and I think I’ll be able to do great things with
it.
Congatulations to all concerned.
class Book
property :author, String
end
Makes the database, table and makes sure it’s all up to date! Are you
kidding? This is SO easy. So good.
I have comments which I hope can be helpful in showing what I
encountered.
Sensitive to how these posts can sound I’d like to emphasize that my
intention is not to whine, but to point out how hard it is for newbies
to
get a purchase in here. I’d also like to help if I can.
- There are a lot of dead ends that a newbie encounters when trying to
understand Og. There’s the beautiful http://www.nitroproject.org/ with
documentation with version 0.42 (but the version number is very hard to
find). The online repository seems to have not been altered since June
- When I try to add a note to the Fora (prior to which I was
required
to get an OpenId) I find that having composed a post, the post button is
ignored (Firefox / Windows). A few words on the front page describing
where
things are would be so golden. Sometimes just a sentence or two of
accurate
status can be so helpful.
-
When I do a gem install og I seem to get Og 0.41, yet I see mentions
of
0.50. What is the latest release? When is 0.50 going to be released.
I
worry when I see so much heavy lifting and refactoring going on in the
codebase that 0.50 is not going to be for a while. This means that I
don’t
know what to concentrate on 0.4x or 0.5. -
The most active forum seems to be this one
(http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/nitro-general) but I can’t see
how to
search it! This makes a lot of the knowledge tied up in it
inaccessible. -
Finding a few paragraphs that describe and give examples of
polymorphism
and schema_inheritance is quite a challenge. Having looked around a
little
I have gleaned snippets from tests. Could someone consolidate these and
put
them into the source code so RDoc at least can find them? -
I grabbed the latest version from the darc’s repository, since people
were saying “Don’t use the 0.4x, use the latest”. This was tricky
itself…
but that’s another story. But I found that SchemaInhertance doesn’t
seem to
work. (Og::SchemaInheritanceBase is missing?). And I can’t find any
test
files to see how I should use polymorphism. -
I installed the latest version via gem. I made the gems myself
according
to the instructions I found. But this was tricky since a) the rake
script
seems to assume a unix-y shell and so didn’t work too well and b) once I
was
doing it on a Linux box the code to transfer the .gemspec’s into the
dist
directory didn’t seem to work.
If any of this can be delegated to me with guidance please give it a
shot.
I think my main hope in this is to get someone - George maybe - to write
a
short paragraph that can be put around (on rubyforge and nitroproject)
saying "Hi! The team and I working on stuff like crazy. Here’s where
we’re
at. If you just want to play use 0.4x - be aware that ___ and ___ have
been
massively re-written also don’t worry about the startup speed, that’s
been
fixed too. If really need the new features, you’ll need to pull from the
repo, however, be aware that ___ and ______ are not working right now.
will be fixed tomorrow, but _____ doesn’t look too close at all. If you
want to contribute or discuss, use ____ forum, since we don’t look at
the
others too much. My timeframe for a general release for Nitro and Og
V0.50
is _____." Or something. This would have made my entry into Og much
more
easy!
Thanks and sorry for the long post.
