I set out to start writing an application to manage the label(s), hoping to try out my Rails skills and actually fulfill a useful need for my life. I've been using Ruby on Rails for about six months now, part-time, and there is still one thing I absolutely struggle to comprehend: JUST HOW GODDAM FAST YOU CAN DEVELOP IN IT. Yeah, it was a Saturday afternoon and evening sitting in front of the laptop, but by the time I went to bed I had the application to the state where I could use it - leaving only "bonus" features, design and interface issues left to do.
Mad props to the polymorphic associations plugin, though I didn't realise it existed and I wrote a complicated controller/view setup for "Notes" (essentially comments) that uses a crapton of eval statements....