Posted by David July 16, 2006 @ 06:00 PM
MenuTree is a new Rails application that seeks to make the search for new take-out places a more enjoyable experience. They just launched, so do help fill up the options in your area.
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Any idea if the next release of Rails will include Trestle as the replacement of scaffold?
http://trestle.rubyforge.org/
Just wondering, Trestle looks quite good.
How was the fade to black focus effect done? Is that a scriptaculous built-in?
1. Pick something from modern life: Cars, Restaurants, Gyms, Music, Coffee, etc
2. Scaffold rails app.
3. Throw in standard “web 2.0” items: flickr integration, ajax, blogs, ajax, google maps support, scriptaculous effects, tags, ajax, etc…
4. Profit.
I for one am starting a new public restroom review site, allowing users to post reviews of restrooms in subway stations, along the highway, in government offices, etc. Google maps will be used to locate the better restrooms wherever you may be travelling. With flickr integration, users will be able to post intresting grafiti found on stall walls, and we will sell stickers to put up on stall walls so you can view the stall’s “traveler log”, sort of like wheresgeorge.com. We’ll be going public in October when beta ends.
who on core did menutree? It seems pretty worthless to mention a new site here unless it was from the rails ccore. the site isn’t even news. there are tons of sites that help find restuarants. the difference is that this one has tags on it!!!!! yay for web2.0!!!!! How many tags an a restuarant have? mexican nachos good delicious
DrM forgot a step between 3 and 4 – promote the hell out of it and create a site that users are interested in. Seems like a lot of people think they can just slap anything together with the latest buzzwords, and make tons of money – just like back during the 90’s bubble. There are a great many sites that use just HTML and SSI. But with Rails you can do so much more, and it aint that much more difficult after the learning curve is climbed.
a delicious tag, now that’s funny
I’m sorry if I’m disclosing the “vulnerability” too early. But the section that says “my account” is disclosing user IDs in the URL. And not only that, you can actually edit other people’s details by changing the value.
Ah, if you did put a valid email address, I strongly suggest you change it before a spammer finds that out.
For a minute there, I thought that to be mentioned in the official Rails blog was quite something…
Hi all
First of all thanks for the feedback. It’s good to get this sort of feedback as opposed to how good a site is etc (we know that there is a lot of work to be done) however the feedback has being helpful to make things better.
It’s our first version of the site and we wanted to learn rails and how it integrates with other technologies. To build something useful I believe you need to start somewhere and that’s what this is a “start”. In the process we found people who are interested in using it, if we can make people lives a lot easier to find theses sorts of information online a pleasant experience then we would have achieved our goal.
For example who would have thought online project management would be a good idea (when you have Microsoft project and other tools have done this), who would have thought Flickr would be a useful way to share images. They all started somewhere. So people the main thing is the start and be agile enough to make changes. There are a lot of people who talk about this and that but never start something. I have to admit the “GetReal” book and the work done by the 37Signals inspired me. Rails itself proved to be a great programming language we just scratched the surface of it learning things as we go. So again many thanks for comments and feedback. ...
Sean, while off topic, I think this needs an answer whenever it is encountered…
One reason may have to do with a misunderstanding about scaffolding. People keep asking for a better replacement because scaffolding is ugly or whatever…. well, it’s supposed to be.
It’s scaffolding. A temporary framework. If you look at construction scaffolding, it is not the building, but the temporary stuff the workers use until the building is standing. So who cares if it’s ugly?
I think there’s a reasonable amount of consumer demand in this area. I’ve been working on an idea for awhile not that dis-similar to this, although I’d hope that whilst there will be some community knowledge, it’s going to be driven by the owners of the businesses who want to be involved in bringing this kind of information online. When you want information you generally want accurate information, not out of date menus contributed by users months ago.
Who knows it may even save a few trees!
(Or even better just reduce the amount of annoying rubbish that piles up in the letter boxes!)
Oh its going to be done in Ruby as well. Just to keep it on topic :) More news as and when it’s actually usable, not before.
At the end of the day I think the more ‘small’ businesses that can make a living creating useful sites like this the better. They don’t need to make millions to be succesful. An average income for a couple of people would be a great start.
Anyways I digress.
It might sound good in theory, but most restaurants already have their own web sites and couldn’t be bothered to update other sites as well. In a perfect world, all restaurant (and other) sites would provide feeds of their menus…
It might sound good in theory, but most restaurants already have their own web sites and couldn’t be bothered to update other sites as well. In a perfect world, all restaurant (and other) sites would provide feeds of their menus…
I agree. Isn’t Web 2.0 (Tim O’ Reilly has a lot to answer for) meant to be about mash-ups? Surely sumething that screen-scrapes every existing restaurant website then agglomerates that information into a single folksonomical, socially-networked index be exactly what should attract the VC money?
Maybe we’re all just getting cynical…
the site may not be as useful as others, but it can’t be as useless as some of the comments that have been posted here. While it may not be newsworthy cutting edge stuff – at least give the creators constructive criticism or direction.
regards, mr nice guy
the layout looks very similar to the one on www.corkd.com. same people behind or lack of fantasy?
You mean the generic two-column with header and tabs?
Just wondering what are you using for login/sign up page?
Is it one of those User/Login generators? Or is it a custom built one?
Thanks
nice layout
Hi, we’re using the Login Generator (http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/LoginGenerator) for our user management.
Cheers,
Ross