Starting my own chain

I’ve decided to start blogging again and while looking for inspiration about what to blog about, I came across Chris Storm’s My Chain post, which is just what I was looking for!

I’ve been reading Chris’ posts about converting his site from Rails to something running on CouchDB for a while now, without realising this is exactly what I want to do too.

Over the past few months, I’ve been getting to grips with Sinatra, mainly to improve my Ruby skills but also just to get me coding again, as my day job at the BBC isn’t as a developer anymore.

While attending the North West Ruby User Group, I’ve also got more to grips with Cucumber and the whole Behaviour Driven Development thing but have yet to put this into full practice.

Therefore, I’m starting My Chain in effect, and I’m going to blog about my experiences while I convert my existing Ruby on Rails site, the Scottish Football Archive, to Sinatra, using CouchDB and having it fully tested with Cucumber.

Seems like a lot to do, but that’s hopefully the point…

Image courtesy of Max Klingensmith

Tags: Cucumber, My Chain, Ruby, Sinatra

Posted: 13 June 2010