Hello everyone. I started implementing the 'collect' and 'process' steps of GTD into tracks. For the full rationale behind it and more information I refer to this thread: http://www.rousette.org.uk/projects/forums/viewthread/258/ (my username is Dieter_be there) And of course the book GTD itself where these steps and their benefits are explained clearly also.
Keep in mind that even though I have some programming experience (php & cakephp among others) I started learning both ruby and RoR from scratch since 2 days ago. So what I have achieved this far is probably peanuts for you guys. ( http://manuals.rubyonrails.com/ giving me 503's makes it especially hard..) What I'm working on right now : a simple model 'thought' (+ controller and views) which should become reachable through <hostname>:3000/inbox to give a page with an overview and a form to submit a new thought (similar to the contexts/projects pages). I still have some problems getting the routing to work among others. When I get that finished, the next step will be a page called 'process' This page will load the oldest unprocessed thought and propose the following options: * create new action/project (can be normal one or someday/maybe) * delete (strictly speaking there should be an option to convert into general reference , but tracks doesn't implement this so the user should update his external general reference system itself and delete the thought). If the user submits this form, I will use ajax to do the necessary things and on success the next unprocessed thought can be loaded. This process of processing thoughts one by one using ajax continues until there are no more thoughts (or the user leaves the page) Here are the necessary queries and patches against 1.6 : http://users.edpnet.be/dieter/tracks-patches/ PS : I'll check out how I can use git and github, this should make patching and sharing paches easier I guess. PPS: Keep in mind the code is still very basic, some things are even the default scaffolded files. I'm new to rails & ror and I tackle problem by problem. PPPS: Do you guys hang out on irc? An irc channel is a great way for developers to talk to each other in real time, and for users to talk to developers. I saw that #tracks on freenode was still empty so I hang out there, if anyone wants to join ... ;-) _______________________________________________ Tracks-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rousette.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/tracks-discuss
