Tickets Launched
So I finally got a rails app up and running on the internet, Tickets thus paving the way from big, better things.
Tickets is a little site made a few weeks ago to track all the little thoughts, bugs and features I think of whilst working on other websites, kinda like a personal twitter.
I was running it locally on my system when I needed it but I thought it would be useful to have it online and get some feedback, plus the learning experience of deploy a rails app was worth the work alone.
Please note it’s not exactly fully tested and doesn’t come with any guarantee that your data will always be there, but saying that I’m happy for you guys to have a poke around and let me know what you think.
The beta signup password is: abcd12345
I’d love to get some feedback on it, and if you find any bugs or typos that would be good too but remember that it’s really only for testing at the moment and could go down or break at any time!
Edit: Ok something’s gone a little bit wrong there! Signup is broken at the moment, most like a server config issue, I’m working on fixing it now but it might not be fixed until tomorrow.
Edit 2: I think I’ve sorted it, can someone let me know if you can signup that would be great.
Awesome. I need something to keep track of everything, I keep on forgetting everything.. although I get this message: “We’re sorry, but something went wrong.”. Oops
Robert on April 17, 2007 6:22 pm
I recieve an error after typing the invite code. Any ideas?
Sasha on April 17, 2007 6:26 pm
Same
Nik on April 17, 2007 7:08 pm
I’m looking into it, it was working this morning but I’ve been messing with the apache configuration, i think that is prolly what is causing the problem!
Andrew on April 17, 2007 7:59 pm
is this hosted at your house or on a webhost?
Jeromy on April 17, 2007 8:16 pm
Logged on now, signup was easy
I may be using this quite a bit, it’s pretty simple to logon and enter something quickly.. How long did it take to make on Rails? Was it easy enough? I’m thinking about starting learning Rails, i’ve got Locomotive set-up on my iMac..
Robert on April 17, 2007 9:10 pm
The main body of the site only took me a few hours over a weekend, it’s not particularly complex or amazing, I find it useful now.
Any suggestions or bug-finds are very welcome, I’m going to change the background image when i get the chance, you kinda forget about download times when you develop on your own machine!
It’s on its my new server at slicehost Jeromy
Andrew on April 17, 2007 10:12 pm
that’s pretty sweet. I can’t wait to dive into ruby on rails this summer.
Adam on April 18, 2007 5:46 am
It is very cool young man!
How about a bookmarklet that can make a ticket? Then I can use it like Del.icio.us - just without all that tagging rubbish!
Or a dashcode widget perhaps?
Taoski on April 18, 2007 8:30 am
Nice little app. The concept seems very similar to Google Notebook?
Kieren Johnson on April 19, 2007 11:35 am
Thanks Kieren, I’ve not used Google notebook, but it wouldn’t suprise me, it’s very simple
Andrew on April 19, 2007 1:45 pm
I just signed up and posted two tickets. It seems like it has the makings of a cool little microblog ap with notebook features.
It broke when I clicked on the link at the upper left with the name of my tickets, which took me back to the login screen. When I clicked the OK button (whatever it’s actually called) I got an error message.
IMHO a microblog ap which goes beyond Twitter would have some nifty export features, for instance, a feature that would email all user’s the tickets, nicely formatted, to a designated address. Next step, tags, so that a subset could be emailed.
BTW, thanks for your photos of me and Barbara at the justin.tv Varnish event.
I have started a microblog called schmu.us (http://schmu.us/) as a personal blog. I post to it every day, with no advance planning as to what I will post. I use BBEdit and Tinderbox (eastgate.com), a powerful note processor, which creates the whole blog on my laptop, from which I upload to a server with BBEdit’s FTP feature. Of course that’s pre-Web2.0 because the ap is not on a website online like Tickets is.
—Jonathan
Jonathan David Leavitt on April 19, 2007 8:48 pm