Mary has often told me that she thinks I should write a website that people can put a picture and ask if anyone knows what it is. I've been putting it off, mostly because I didn't feel like writing it in asp.net, which is my general web language (when I have to do web). Now, though, I'm on a roll with learning Ruby and Rails, so I figured it would be a perfect time to do it.
The website is going to be called WhatIsThis. There will be two parts to the site: uploading new things; commenting on existing things. I'm first going to focus on uploading new things, so here is my first batch of stories:
- Create a new thing
There should be a simple form for creating new things. There will be two items that are required: picture url and description. - View a thing
There should be a simple view for viewing an existing thing. The picture should be displayed.
This should cover the first little bit. I'm impressed by the agility inherent in the rails model to support a nice evolutionary design, so I'm not going to worry about much more.