MyChores Journal

I am really pleased with the search page i’ve managed to put together today, niftily using AJAX thanks to a little bit of help :) I have tested it but there could well be errors remaining. If anything funny happens please let me know!
The only thing i don’t like about it is the pagination – [...]

I have signed up to Google AdSense so that i can put a little box of advertisements at the bottom of each MyChores page. I hope this won’t be a problem for anybody using the site. I’m just thinking i may as well put some on – they’re easy to do, and i think they’ll [...]

If daily notifications are a bit too annoying, you can now try weekly notifications! Just edit your profile and choose the day of the week that you’d like to receive your weekly email.
You’ll be reminded of any overdue tasks, plus all tasks coming up in the week. I guess most people would want this either [...]

I have created a script for sending daily email notifications! I first wrote it as an action within the controller so that i could test it through a web page. Then i transferred it to a method within the model, which i thought was a good idea, except i kept getting NoMethodError which was nonsense [...]

So i’ve been getting to grips with Action Mailer. I’m absolutely delighted how quickly i’ve put together a simple contact form … and it’s even better that it stores all messages in the database, just in case the email goes missing.
The email example i copied was to send an email to the user after registering [...]

As my partner just pointed out, i have a logo now, so it’s time to make another post! Okay, it’s not a great logo, but it’ll do until some kind person offers to make me a better one! I’m not much of a graphic designer myself, heheh!
I have also just done a tour, which was [...]

So … mychores.co.uk has begun to see the light of day! For months this has been an idea floating around in my mind, gradually gaining form and structure.
Thanks to the most excellent Ruby on Rails, I have managed to put this all together in about 3 weeks! I must say, it’s been a joy learning [...]