I’m going to go ahead and point out that I called it. Of course, most everyone in Eugene was probably calling the same thing, but I have it on record, so I think that makes me special. On to the elite eight!

There are still a couple minor issues, but I figured it was good enough to throw out into the ether.

This isn’t really that serious, and I haven’t spent a massive amount of time getting it perfect, but I think it could have the potential to be useful. It’s really just a way to coordinate local textbook exchanges with integration with the University’s course catalog. Check it out!

As a little aside, this was my first Rails app, which is really why I wrote it. It’s the language everyone is talking about, so I figured the best way to give it a shot would be to build something with it. I’m very impressed with both the language and the framework. They are both exactly what every environment has been trying to be for the last decade, but they don’t make the mistake of forgetting the point of developing: to create something. Actually, it took me about as long to deploy the application as to create it. A bug in the Ruby 1.8.4 garbage collector on my Linux box kept me guessing for about half a week, but 1.8.5 seems to have taken care of the problem nicely.