# NEW RAILS SITE: Riding two bubbles at the same time **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [December 29, 2005, 3:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-rails-site-riding-two-bubbles-at-the-same-time/51289 "2005-12-29T03:59:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sdelmont](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@sdelmont](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sdelmont)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 3:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-rails-site-riding-two-bubbles-at-the-same-time/51289/1 "2005-12-29T03:59:07Z")
Today we finally opened the doors to “Street Easy” (http:// [www.streeteasy.com/](http://www.streeteasy.com/)), a Real Estate Research Site for New York City. It was built by two guys in three months. It doesn’t have tags, but it has google maps. It rides two bubbles at the same time. It’s like road kill: the price tags will shock you, but you won’t be able to stop browsing around. And I’m not going to waste your time or mine telling you what framework we used to build it. Go take a look, play with it and see if you can spot a couple of cool rails tricks we have done (and will soon be sharing with the world). And from those two guys, a big thank you to David Hasandbelongstomany Hansson, the rest of the core team and the rails community for the best thing to happen in web development in the last 20 years. Really, thanks! Sebastian D. PS: and go visit the site, and tell your friends, and give us google love PPS: and of course, send all the feedback you can send, either to me directly or through the site. ---
**Author:** ![sdelmont](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@sdelmont](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sdelmont)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 4:17am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-rails-site-riding-two-bubbles-at-the-same-time/51289/2 "2005-12-29T04:17:09Z")
> Today we finally opened the doors to “Street Easy” (http:// > [www.streeteasy.com/](http://www.streeteasy.com/)), a Real Estate Research Site for New York City. My first thought? Very depressing… I always new NYC was expensive but the confirmation was deflating all the same. And I live in S.F. and I thought it was ridiculous here… The site is very slick, though – very well done, IMO, w/ Google maps. Congrats on the launch! ---
**Author:** ![sdelmont](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@sdelmont](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sdelmont)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 5:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-rails-site-riding-two-bubbles-at-the-same-time/51289/3 "2005-12-29T05:20:18Z")
On Wednesday 28 December 2005 09:31 pm, Sebastian D. wrote: > rails tricks we have done (and will soon be sharing with the world). > Man, you massaged that data every which way but loose. Kewl! SteveT Steve L. Author: - Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware - Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist - Rapid Learning: Secret Weapon of the Successful Technologist Webmaster - [Troubleshooters.Com](http://Troubleshooters.Com) - [http://www.troubleshooters.com](http://www.troubleshooters.com) ---
**Author:** ![sdelmont](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@sdelmont](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sdelmont)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 6:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-rails-site-riding-two-bubbles-at-the-same-time/51289/4 "2005-12-29T06:57:44Z")
On 12/28/05, Sebastian D. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Today we finally opened the doors to “Street Easy” (http:// > [www.streeteasy.com/](http://www.streeteasy.com/)), a Real Estate Research Site for New York City. > > It was built by two guys in three months. It doesn’t have tags, but > it has google maps. It rides two bubbles at the same time. I’m especially pleased that I can browse without Javascript (although no maps)! It’s getting more and more important to me as sites move toward the drag-fade-blink-spin-popup madness. It looks like great work was done. > Really, thanks! > Sebastian D. Sincerely, Tom L. removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [http://AllTom.com/](http://AllTom.com/) ---
**Author:** ![sdelmont](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@sdelmont](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sdelmont)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 5:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-rails-site-riding-two-bubbles-at-the-same-time/51289/5 "2005-12-29T05:32:21Z")
On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 10:31:52PM -0400, Sebastian D. wrote: > And from those two guys, a big thank you to David Hasandbelongstomany > Hansson, the rest of the core team and the rails community for the > best thing to happen in web development in the last 20 years. As good as Rails is, I think the invention of the Web itself might be considered more valuable… - Matt ---
**Author:** ![sdelmont](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@sdelmont](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sdelmont)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2005, 2:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-rails-site-riding-two-bubbles-at-the-same-time/51289/6 "2005-12-29T14:23:46Z")
I really like the filter ability on the talk page. I’m a newbie, is that a standard thing or one of your tricks? FYI: If you uncheck everything in the filter selection you get a error page. Looks like you have at least one more bug to address. Greg On 12/28/05, Sebastian D. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > rails tricks we have done (and will soon be sharing with the world). > PPS: and of course, send all the feedback you can send, either to me > directly or through the site. > > * * * > > Rails mailing list > removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails) – Greg F. The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century ---
**Author:** ![sdelmont](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@sdelmont](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sdelmont)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 7:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-rails-site-riding-two-bubbles-at-the-same-time/51289/7 "2006-01-04T19:12:04Z")
Steve, I have no relation to the site, but I thought I would answer your questions. If you use apache or lighttpd to run your app then you can use standard port 80 or 443 so you do not need to specify the port. You could probably even use webrick on port 80 if nothing else was running on it and you had authority with the OS. As for how to run off the root, that is simply a matter of setting up your routes in config/routes.rb, you can specify what controller is called for a root URL and so much more. Check out the documentation on routes and you’ll see how to do it. Best, Jeff ---
**Author:** ![sdelmont](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@sdelmont](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sdelmont)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 6:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-rails-site-riding-two-bubbles-at-the-same-time/51289/8 "2006-01-04T18:50:56Z")
On Wednesday 28 December 2005 09:31 pm, Sebastian D. wrote: > rails tricks we have done (and will soon be sharing with the world). > > And from those two guys, a big thank you to David Hasandbelongstomany > Hansson, the rest of the core team and the rails community for the > best thing to happen in web development in the last 20 years. > > Really, thanks! > Sebastian D. Sebastian, David or anyone else Nice site! I really like the hierarchies you can expand and collapse. Is this site run on Webrick, Apache, Apache2, IIS, or something else? How did you avoid needing to put the port number in the URL? How did you have the app off the main page rather than [http://www.mydomain.tld/mycontroller](http://www.mydomain.tld/mycontroller)? Thanks SteveT Steve L. Author: - Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware - Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist - Rapid Learning: Secret Weapon of the Successful Technologist Webmaster - [Troubleshooters.Com](http://Troubleshooters.Com) - [http://www.troubleshooters.com](http://www.troubleshooters.com)