I was tasked to provide additional functionality to the Variety Club site administrative suite. The additional functionality includes an online booking system for events using Google Checkout as the payment service provider and help volunteers manage these bookings and event attendees.

The site was originally on a PHP framework. Migrating the content across to Rails was extremely easy. Due to the built-in Rails conventions and helpers I was able to create layouts, partials and views that were very DRY. The views are more compact, XHTML strict and CSS based making it really easy for search engines to transverse and index content.

Not only was I able to simplify the views and write some layout helpers but I also included the additional Google Checkout and booking functionality. All this in a matter of days!

Ruby on Rails is a great platform for building web applications with speed and ease. We look forward to adding new features to the Variety Club North West site which on Rails, is so straight forward.

Tags: agile, charity, DRY, rails, ruby, ruby on rails

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