rails is ridiculously easy for this kind of application, sorry I'll try to read mor of this and post some pointers, but wiki.rubyonrails.org is amazing.

i've started the work. i've been fixing up me schema a lot, and i've got some of the basic functions of the site up and running locally. in a few days, i'll be ready to check the code into SVN o...

yeah. that's the most important part. make sure your relationships are good. Also you should look into "Single Table Inheritance" for example class Topic end class ForumThread 'my journa...

i definitely gotta do it that way! i do it like that in the current Java code now, to a certain degree. but if i clean up the schema a bit more, this could really shine.

yeah. I haven't looked at ezabel schema in a while, but I remember you doing something like this. But the difference in Rails is, its part of the ActiveRecord framework. good support for this kind...

yeah that's really sexy. it figures out the type by the class name? part of the problem is that I have different tables for everything news, journals, threads, faqs, events.. all different ...

yeah, that is a slight drawback to STI. it's illustrated here: http://www.martinfowler.com/eaaCatalog/singleTableInheritance.html all properties of all classes in the inheritance tree are prese...