While staring at my text file with more than 250 urls for mp3 blogs, I had an idea for an app that might be able to start to answer some of these questions. But there are such great tools for talking to the Flickr API in Ruby, that doing so has been compared to writing florid love poetry.
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We've got users and posts each of which have a couple of attributes. First of all, with migrations you'll manage your database schema in Ruby just like the rest of your project; you don't have to jump into SQL (or learn it in the first place) every time you want to make a change.
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The one downside I've found is that the syntax for view logic can get kind of verbose, especially when you're doing repetitive things like displaying defaults for each piece of data you've got that's not set, like so:
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One nice thing about using acts_as_versioned in this way is that it is non-destructive; all the more recent versions since the one to which we just reverted are still saved in our artist_versions table and we can always un-revert to them (if that's not too confusing).
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The guy there told me that my design was in violation of Heinz Ketchup's "trade dress rights" which could include any similarity to the color, shape, or design of their packaging in my image.
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For example, on Hype Machine, even after an mp3 drops off the original blog the blog post will still show up in searches and you can still listen to the songs in an onsite flash player, but you can't download them. I would love for both of these things to be different, but there is little I can do.
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