Today *is* day 1, however, of the blog I just created to track this project: building a Rails database system not unlike Quickbase using Amazon Web Services as the host.
There: I've said it out loud.
I have been thinking about it for a while, having worked in Quickbase for several years and recently delving into VBA, Ruby, JavaScript/jQuery, SQL, and some HTML/CSS to get more out of it. I did set up some basic Rails stuff at work, but I was consistently thwarted by the fact that I did not have admin rights to my computer. My boss let me have a subscription to Lynda.com for a year and I logged in every day for an hour to learn all I could.
Mostly what I have done up to this point is create some extra-Quickbase sauce (with the help of the Gareth Lewis mostly who created the QBAPI wrapper for Ruby) that uses Outlook emails to trigger all sorts of events inside Quickbase.
I recently bought the book Metaprogramming Ruby from The Pragmatic Bookshelf, then Agile Web Development With Rails from the same company, and then Host Your Web Site In The Cloud: Amazon Web Services Made Easy: Amazon EC2 Made Easy.
Between these three I think I can get this done within a year.
Downloaded Ruby 1.9.2, sqlite3, Rails 3.0.3, and jEdit with Ruby plugin at the suggestion of the Agile book. I have been using Notepad++, but it doesn't (read: I haven't figured out if/how it might) auto-complete, which apparently jEdit will and with the Ruby plugin, it will really shine somehow.
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