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One of our pet-projects, MyBandSpot that has been used by a few local bands in Portland, Oregon is going to be rebuilt in Ruby on Rails in the next month. It’s currently built in PHP, Smarty, and PostgreSQL and we are going to rebuild the Management console in Ruby on Rails so that we can use some of the fancy built-in AJAX features and slowly work our way into the core system for the template engine. At this time our Smarty based system works well for the band websites (we store our templates in PostgreSQL), so we will focus our attention on the client area for managing their sites.

We have been putting off the final design on this area and after spending a few hours Refactoring, I decided that it was time to go ahead and make the obvious decision and slice the project in half (and maybe rebuild the whole system in the future).

Small steps are better than none, right?