Do some templating of your own ... sigh ... not enough coffee yet. On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Francis Fish <[email protected]>wrote:
> I'd need to see it, to be honest. It may be that there's a ton of > repetition in the app, in which case templates will come to the rescue. But > you're gonna have to deconstruct the app into MVC and effectively use it as > a full-blown specification. I recon that will take you at least a week just > to get a spec, probably a lot longer - what's the budget? > > How many tables does it have? 100 pages implies 25 or so, assuming index + > CRUD. Plus whatever SSI is adding in. > > Another thing to try is using a Rails app to created restful services and > then calling back from the main app, but the original app sounds very > user-centric so probably won't help. > > it might be better to refactor the existing app along restful lines and do > some templating of your in readiness and leave it for now. > > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Matt Roberts < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I've been asked to make quite a lot of changes to an existing web site. At >> the moment its all HTML with SSI's, and a wee bit of perl thrown in for good >> measure. >> >> Obviously I want/have to to use rails to implement all the funky new >> things they want, but I'm not sure how to tackle the current site. Should I >> try to migrate the site properly into rails with nice url's and views for >> all the pages (there seems to be a lot of those pages - over 100). Or should >> I try to leave the current pages alone, and try to get SSI's working for >> those pages (assuming that this is even possible in mod_rails with our >> hosting provider).. >> >> Anyone had a similar dilemma? >> >> Matt Roberts >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Thanks and regards, > > Francis Fish > -- Thanks and regards, Francis Fish --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NWRUG" group. 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/nwrug-members?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
