Hello all! I'm new to actually *building* anything with these little fragments of programming knowledge that I cobbled together, so I'm hoping someone can give me a push in the right direction.
I'm working on building a 'utility' rails site that will only be used by myself and one or two coworkers. I'm not concerned with security (it will be a local webserver only), appearance, etc. I just need one thing to work. The plan is this: I have remote jobsites that will report back to our server via a small ftp file. For now it will just send us their WAN IP, but I plan on expanding this once I figure out the overall structure of what the heck I'm trying to do. :) I want to be able to go to the local Rails webserver and see a list of all our jobsites with a list of their WAN IPs and last updated times. So... I have the FTP side working. I have the rudimentary Rails 'site' working, and I can manually enter jobsite info at the localhost:3000/sites URL. I need to automate the process of parsing each FTP file and adding it to the database. The parsing I can work out, but I am clueless on how to even begin updating this 'app' from a script that is 'outside' of the Rails app...if that makes sense. I can run a script that parses the FTP file, but what approach do I take to get the parsed info INTO the database? There are probably 100 ways to do this and I know 0 of them. :) Thanks! Jim S ( the issue I'm having right now is that since I don't even know what concept to use, I have to research different ways to do 'it', then I have to learn how to do 'it #1', then I go off on that tangent for a while, figure out it's not what I want, go back to researching other methods, then have to learn how to do 'it #2', go off in that direction for a while, etc. I can tell you that I've learned more USEFUL programming knowledge over the past month now that I have something to work on than I have in the past 2 years doing random online tutorials and classes and having no real-world application for it... ) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubyonrails-talk/-/89zziTO2VwYJ. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
