So I’ve finally decided to take on a project and make it open source.  The project will become a ‘Basecamp’-esque clone.  After being a Basecamp user for a long time, I have decided that there a couple things I would like to see and the best way to make that happen was to build it myself. I know what you’re all saying… it’s been done before.  There have a been a few, ActiveCollab being one promising version until they went to a pay app.  The Railscollab project took what ActiveCollab had and made recoded using Rails, which is way cool.  I would love to contribute...

I’ve been getting back into Rails lately now that school is over and with the new 2.0 release there has been quite a few changes. The biggest change for me is the whole REST thing. The concept doesn’t seem that hard for me, it’s the dang coding that is getting me hung up. Using the scaffold has let me see what rails generated code would look like, so that’s cool. My problem seems to be in that my controller is nested in a module for the admin section. To get me started I checked out the fantastic Peepcode episode on RESTful Rails and really hit it home with a screencast...