First use of Rhubarb on Rails
Morning out there. Our shiny newly developed Rhubarb on Rails online letter writing action tool nearly saw its first deployment last night but I declared it not ready for use. Why?
* It's running on a development server
* It's running in development mode
* It's running against MySQL - typically we use and know more about PostgreSQL
* The participation page is not yet configurable enough and (as the demo shows) this means that even a basic action doesn't look correct in FireFox because the body text field is too wide.
* No decision has been made about which mail server should be sending the mails.
* The reporting functionality is extremely limited.
* And last but not least, our existing tool which RoR is to replace is currently capable of more and if problems arise is a better understood beast.
However, I do fully intend to use it as soon as possible, but wish to deploy it properly. Watch this space for the first deployment.