Hi all, First off, a very quick introduction of where I'm coming from, skill-level-wise: I'm a complete neophyte with both Rails and Hobo, although I'm familiar with Ruby. I do understand web development, MVC architecture, OOP, etc., and have used a variety of platforms and frameworks.
My company needs a small internal database to keep track of contracts, and I'm using that as an opportunity to learn Rails. I was attracted to Hobo because it seems like it will eliminate a lot of the "busy work" involved in making an application. I did the Agility tutorial, and also followed along with my own application. Indeed, I was amazed at how I needed to do little more than declare my model to have a full application up and running. I also did some work at changing some of the cards for my application, just to show that I can, although I prefer not to do a whole lot of that until the application is more complete than it is. Where I'm stuck now is that after the tutorial, I have an app that allows users to enter and view data, but I don't have a really good understanding of how to make it do things programmatically. In my specific case, the contract data in my application really only needs to be *viewed*; the data itself should be uploaded once per month from a CSV file and then cleaned up, have the uploader notified of problem rows, etc. I used Paperclip and made a model that would take the raw CSV files, and I also made a model to hold the actual data from the files. Parsing the CSV isn't the problem; I'm sure there are many Ruby libraries that can help. What I don't know is - If I wanted to make a link in the "uploaded csv file" page that, when clicked would run code, how do I make that link? And where does the code itself go? - How do I access the data (not the CSV file; I mean how do I make new records; how do I search existing records, etc.) from that code? I'm certainly not asking anyone to do my work for me; just hoping that someone could give me a link that I can read, or a link to a hobo-based project with public source code, etc. that would help point me in the right direction. Thanks! - Drew -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hobo Users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/hobousers/-/zvwqiZ7JjuMJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hobousers?hl=en.
