I have had some more time playing with Mbrship.org and so there is progress to report.
This is going well, the fun factor is high as I hoped.
I did join the mailing list but the volume was so high (with well mannered and helpful responses) that I have found it a much better use of time to find things from the book Agile Web Development with Rails, Rails Recipes and from Google.
I have a couple of tables with forms and have also been able to get into custom pretty url's. All with very little code (I think less than 10 lines of ruby: rake stats does not give a clear picture due to the majority of code being generated automatically) and a little bit of html.
TextDrive Hosting
Mbrship.org is hosted on TextDrive and so I have been playing with that a little. So far I have
- added a subversion repository for the source code (see mbrship: Subversion Source Repository) it even has code in it (but not really ready even for the very brave yet). This uses a shared SSL certificate. I will be getting a dedicated certificate for mbrship.com before offerring hosting (see mbrship: The mbrship business model).
- updated the blog a little (spam filtering with Akismet and layout changes).
- Added AWStats to monitor useage
Mbrship Project
I have been doing some sketch design and have written a blog entry on where I am up to (see mbrship: Initial Design with data model).
Next step is to get the relationship between People and Churches to work automatically.

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Posted by: Efrén | Thursday, April 06, 2006 at 03:56 PM
Efrén,
Done. I have made the RubyOnRails category feed work and added that to RubyCorner. I have also added the RubyOnRails category feed for http://mbrship.org/blog
Thanks
Dave
Posted by: DaveW | Thursday, April 06, 2006 at 05:22 PM