Hello all! I’m new to actually building anything with these little
fragments of programming knowledge that I cobbled together, so I’m
hoping
someone can give me a push in the right direction.
I’m working on building a ‘utility’ rails site that will only be used by
myself and one or two coworkers. I’m not concerned with security (it
will
be a local webserver only), appearance, etc. I just need one thing to
work. The plan is this:
I have remote jobsites that will report back to our server via a small
ftp
file. For now it will just send us their WAN IP, but I plan on expanding
this once I figure out the overall structure of what the heck I’m trying
to
do. I want to be able to go to the local Rails webserver and see a
list
of all our jobsites with a list of their WAN IPs and last updated times.
So… I have the FTP side working. I have the rudimentary Rails ‘site’
working, and I can manually enter jobsite info at the
localhost:3000/sites
URL. I need to automate the process of parsing each FTP file and adding
it
to the database. The parsing I can work out, but I am clueless on how
to
even begin updating this ‘app’ from a script that is ‘outside’ of the
Rails
app…if that makes sense.
I can run a script that parses the FTP file, but what approach do I take
to
get the parsed info INTO the database?
There are probably 100 ways to do this and I know 0 of them.
Thanks!
Jim S
( the issue I’m having right now is that since I don’t even know what
concept to use, I have to research different ways to do ‘it’, then I
have
to learn how to do ‘it #1’, then I go off on that tangent for a while,
figure out it’s not what I want, go back to researching other methods,
then
have to learn how to do ‘it #2’, go off in that direction for a while,
etc.
I can tell you that I’ve learned more USEFUL programming knowledge over
the past month now that I have something to work on than I have in the
past
2 years doing random online tutorials and classes and having no
real-world
application for it… )