# \[OT\] New old-car website looking for beta testers

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ot-new-old-car-website-looking-for-beta-testers/91069>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 4, 2007, 10:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ot-new-old-car-website-looking-for-beta-testers/91069 "2007-04-04T10:02:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![cwt137](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@cwt137](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cwt137)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2007, 10:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ot-new-old-car-website-looking-for-beta-testers/91069/1 "2007-04-04T10:02:46Z")

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Apologies for the OT and arguably ADV post. I’m close to releasing my  
first full-scale rails app, and am looking for beta testers. The site is  
for people with old cars (cars over 20 years old), so if any of you fit  
into that category I’d really appreciate you heading over to  
[http://www.autopendium.co.uk/betas/new](http://www.autopendium.co.uk/betas/new) and signing up for the closed  
beta test.

While I’m here I’d like to thank the whole of the Rails community,  
especially the core team and the guys on the rails-deployment list. I’m  
wasn’t a programmer by background (done a bit of PHP hacking, and some  
assembly language and BASIC some 25 years ago), and have had to  
essentially teach myself to program in order to do this project (which  
is still very much a first draft)\*. Doing this could have been a  
nightmare; instead the structure of Rails and the beauty of Ruby made it  
a joy.

Though my code still leaves a lot to be desired, it’s a damn sight more  
structured and robust than anything I’ve done before, and that is  
entirely down to Rails. Along the way I’ve come to embrace testing  
first, REST, and some fattish models (though my controllers could still  
be a little more skinny). Now I have a lot more confidence in my coding,  
and the work that I’m doing, and generally judge my code on the simple  
maxim: if it’s not clean and simple, there’s probably a better way.

Once again many thanks

Chris T.

\*I’ve also had to get to grips with deployment and Linux Sys Admin, but  
that’s another story entirely.

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**Author:** ![cwt137](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@cwt137](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cwt137)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2007, 5:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ot-new-old-car-website-looking-for-beta-testers/91069/2 "2007-04-05T17:42:08Z")

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'72 Mach 1 Mustang here… I’m in. 🙂

Wes

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**Author:** ![cwt137](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@cwt137](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cwt137)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2007, 12:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ot-new-old-car-website-looking-for-beta-testers/91069/3 "2007-04-08T12:06:11Z")

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Wes wrote:

> > beta test.  
> > Though my code still leaves a lot to be desired, it’s a damn sight more
> > 
> > \*I’ve also had to get to grips with deployment and Linux Sys Admin, but  
> > that’s another story entirely.
> 
> >

Cool (though being a Camaro owner, probably shouldn’t say that). Just  
trying to squash a deployment bug, then should be ending out the first  
batch of beta codes. It’s still at an early stage, but, hey, that’s the  
agile philosophy, right?