On-Line Entry using Ruby on Rails
Project: 2318
Supervisor: Ian Watson
Difficulty grading: SH/INF=F
BM=F
CM=F
Area: General Applications
Max number of students who can do this project: 1
Many sports participation events (running, biking, adventure racing, orienteering, etc.) use web based entry systems where participants can register and pay to take part in forthcoming races.
An entry form for general use needs to be flexible because different sports require different entry data. A flexible system should therefore be able to accept a specification of a form structure and possibly underlying database structure in a format such as XML. Ruby on Rails is a modern programming language and environment designed specifically for database driven web applications. This project will investigate the use of RoR to build a system of the sort described above