NexWerk Site
This page displays the features of the site and tells you the story about how it was implemented and evolved over time.
Version 1.3
Author: Enrique Comba Riepenhausen
Added the view book functionallity for The Wandering Book.
Other changes:
- Added uploading page so that craftsmen can upload their work to the site.
- Installed ImageMagic on the server to do the image transformations for the pages.
New libraries used:
- Paperclip 2.2.9.1
Version 1.2.1
Author: Enrique Comba Riepenhausen
Changed the way the mailer for The Wandering Book works so that it handles exceptions gracefully when something goes wrong while sending a mail.
Version 1.2
Author: Enrique Comba Riepenhausen
This version introduces The Wandering Book an idea to capture the Zeitgeist of the Software Craftsmanship movement.
Other changes:
- The about link has moved from the submenu to the footer.
- The Seminars & Training link has moved to the top menu.
Libraries used:
- Ruby 1.8.6
- Ruby on Rails 2.3.2
- Cucumber 0.3.7
- Rspec 1.2.6
Version 1.1
Author: Enrique Comba Riepenhausen
In this version I basically only ported the original, static, page into a Ruby on Rails application which would allow me to introduce more dynamic content to the site.
A great thank you goes to Adewale Oshineye for the images. He gave me permission to use the photographs he took during the How to walk the Long Road seminar last 17th of May.
Other changes:
- Reformated the main page.
- Added image to the Home page.
- Reformated the Seminars & Training page.
- Added image to the Seminars & Training page.
Libraries used
- Ruby 1.8.6
- Ruby on Rails 2.3.2
- Cucumber 0.3.7
- Rspec 1.2.6
Version 1.0
Author: Enrique Comba Riepenhausen
The very first version of this site was a set of static HTML pages created with a tool called RapidWeaver.
The design comes from a RapidWeaver theme by Josh Lockhart.