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It has been about ten days since we first started writing the
AsiaQuake realtime relief database system. Two programmers using
Rails (and learning all the 1.0 features) managed to accomplish
this much functionality:
a login system with four levels of permissions: read, write, manage, and admin
a missing person database
a phone number database
a volunteer database
variously sorted table listings for all of the above
search boxes in all tables
export of all to data XML and CSV
approximate matching and soundex search
Our next items are
a table for infectious disease outbreaks like measles
a table to track supply requests, shipments, fulfilment, and use
a hospital table
email alerts based on status changes for persons or supplies
So far, we’ve been very pleased at the level of functionality we have
achieved in this short timeframe, and we think it validates Ruby and
Rails promises to be many times faster than the older CGI approaches.
If you’d like to find out more, check out our application at:
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