On Monday 25 September 2006 17:32, Ian Haywood wrote: > How will you get patient demographic data into the app?
I started doing the address book example as I said. It was functional in less than one hour (no, I am not joking) in that I could add, review, update and delete records via screen forms and had a role based authentication mechanism in place Most of that just auto-generated code, but a few things already modified to give it a nicer screen layout, and some constraints enforced. All I did was following the instructions in the "4 days on Rails" pdf without really reading much but just following the examples. If I would have done the same in PHP from scratch without any framework (which I just did for the Divisional Health Directory as a contracted work) it would have taken me at least 10 hours - that's a productivity increase by one full order of magnitude! I reckon it will take less than a week to implement it "properly", meaning it will be acceptable to they eye, and all basic features we want will work for this simple module - this should be realistic given that I actually already can work with it (I can add, delete, update and view addressbook data right now) Since the code is nicely separated into data model, controller, and view (MVC model enforced by RoR) and most of the look and feel is controlled by a single style sheet it doesn't matter if what I do is butt ugly - because it will be cheap just to hire a CSS wizard to style it nicely. Horst _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
