Boy is that place a rats nest… haven’t looked at the site for a year now and decided to see how long it would take me to upgrade to rails 2. Remarkable enough it was really not that tricky to do which speaks to the level of my knowledge of rails at the time which was fairly slim so all my upgrading tasks where fairly light. So to make things more exciting I decided make it more rest-y … which also was remarkable light task except for a few minor issues such as lack of tests which makes it terribly difficult to even know if the site is working at all except for the fact that I clicked around a bit … (god I wish I had known testing better a year ago). So before I would dive into upping the test coverage I decided to save the very little traffic I get from google by issuing a 301 for the urls that changed. So as an former mod_rewrite ninja (oh did I mention that I deployed the site before I fell in love with nginx) I fired up .htaccess and wrote all the rules for the rewrites … then after 30 minutes of cursing and moaning I read somewhere that .htaccess doesn’t take on rails app jez. Not to worry I just stuffed the rules into my virtualhost config and things are flying.
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