Chris MacNaughton currently works at Lambda, working on public cloud and focusing on automated testing and storage. Previousle, he worked at Canonical, leading the Ceph Engineering team and focusing on improving testing as well as making Ceph easier to deploy and consume.

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Last week I wrote about Startup Weekend and my experience starting PermitMe.

It was written entirely in PHP.

Moving to RoR

I decided to rebuild the entire application in Ruby on Rails to both practice my Ruby and improve the application as I was looking at rebuilding it anyway to be more object oriented and clean.

I started my rebuild on Wednesday and had the same functionality within only a few hours of working on it (spread over a few days). Knowing the direction a project is going in does wonders for writing effective code quickly!

The site is still running the old version until I add in some user authentication and build the database of permits again (it’s a lot better this time!) but soon we should be adding in new features!

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