As I was planning, today is the day I announce Run-N-Share. It is my simple Ruby-On-Rails powered application. Using it You can store routes and share them with world. My first idea was related to jogging routes, but this is not limited to any particular type of routes.
Site is an beta stage (ugh are they some non beta sites nowadays?) – I wanted to be a half product (it has minimal set of features – storing routes, naming them, displaying and basic search), but to be realeased. Next features are currently implemented.
So check this site and tell me what You think: http://www.run-n-share.com/. Do You like it? Or does it sucks completely?
And now, what I have learned writing this application.
First and most important: Ruby On Rails is real enabler to web development. I could not imagine I wrote this in PHP with this same level of efforts (I stress it again I wrote). I started developing in August and up to now I devoted total 52 hours for it (thank You SlimTimer!). It is very little, when You take in consideration that it was my first application using so much JavaScript and Google Maps API. If I have write it again I suppose it would take me no more than 20 – 30 hours. I spend lot of time writing features which are present in Google Maps API (like zoom calculation and distance between points).
Second – I have learned using JavaScript and AJAX. It was much simpler than I thought, however differences between browsers are real pain for beginners ;-)))