COLLEEN ROBLEDO Web Developer | Librarian | Researcher | Genealogist

I'm trying to deploy a simple Ruby on Rails test app to my web hosting service, Netfirms, but am running into a little bit of trouble.

I've moved onto the "real" Grails project at work now, our system Administration "Admin" Tool, and in-house content management, customer service, fulfillment, and reporting tool. Developing controllers, especially method expressions, has been a bit tricky for me, the concept is still very new, but I'm really grasping how to set up the domain classes and am doing extremely well with configuring, customizing, and skinning the views.

It just figures that after a couple days reading through my Ruby on Rails book, I finally get to sit down and start building the Digg-like Shovell project from the book, only to get error after error when trying to build my domain models and .yml files. So I switched to a couple web tutorials for beginners only to run into the same error. After Googling the exact error, I found others who recently encountered this same error, which turns out to be a result of trying out Rails v.1x tutorials on newer v.2.0 installations (version 2.0 was released December 2007).

Much of the reading up I've been doing on Grails mentions the similarities between Grails and Ruby on Rails. Grails is after all, Groovy on Rails. And both are based upon the MVC architecture. So, I started taking a peak at some Rails web tutorials geared towards beginners, to see if these could help provide me with more of a beginner non-Java-programmer perspective on developing MVC frameworks. And my hunch proved correct.