Dare to Dream?

We just finished porting ApnaBill.com from Rails 1.2.5 to Rails 2.0.2 - the port wasn’t that tough, specially with Ben’s Rails2 Upgrade Notes on SlashDotDash.
The steps we took…

Make your config file reflect the new rails version (make sure you have it installed)
Move all instances of start_form_tag to form_tag
Change find_all to find(:all)… this wasn’t an issue […]

If Rails was not cool enough, caching is icing on the cake
Check this out - pulled right from the production log…
Without Caching
Completed in 0.02199 (45 reqs/sec) | Rendering: 0.02001 (90%) | DB: 0.00106 (4%) | 200 OK
With Caching
Completed in 0.00520 (192 reqs/sec) | Rendering: 0.00430 (82%) | DB: 0.00086 (16%) | 200 OK
% […]

I “might” be good at many things - but when it comes to designing with a mouse, I’m absolutely pathetic! One major reason for this being I lack the patience to sit in front of the PC and keep iterating over - and over again - on the same image - design and modifying […]