| cmo-0 | just to give you an idea about the models involved in the application. its a real estate managment app. the models are: Property (has many rentable_entities), RentableEntity(has one contract), Contract(has many payments) so in properties_controller in the 'show' action i did: @property = Property.find params[:id], :include => { :rentable_entities => { :contract => :payments } } |
| carter | cmo-0: i've been working on an IDX app for the last few months |
| yafho3872 | IDX ? |
| carter | internet data exchange... its what MLS offices (real estate brokerage local groups) call their listing search apps |
| yafho3872 | so like list houses, and contacts |
| carter | well IDX is really the exchange of data from MLS to any provider not contracts but houses but my app goes well beyond just listings |
| yafho3872 | ah oh? |
| zachinglis | carter: virb's sucessfull :p |
| carter | it extends to open houses, virtual tours, etc. |
| zachinglis | Anyway, carter, any new ideas? |
| carter | sorry man i don't know what's going on |
| yafho3872 | ah |
| zachinglis | I'm gonna start a new rails app and try migrating it |
| yafho3872 | virutal tours? like those panoramic pictures where u can click and zoom |
| carter | yep |
| yafho3872 | written in ruby ? |
| carter | well that aspect will be either flash or java |
| yafho3872 | ah but it must be tough trying to get it all together |
| carter | but i'm really hoping to be able to put together an app where the agent can just upload the various image files and it'll stitch them together in a panorama automatically but i'm not quite there yet |
| yafho3872 | hmmm thats a good idea |
| carter | well there's definitely software that does it all automatically |
| yafho3872 | oh really |
| carter | photoshop CS3 has a magical panorama stitcher |
| yafho3872 | ohh |
| carter | speaking of which i wonder if CS3 is done installing |
| yafho3872 | btw, is there a way to produce 3d mesh from various pics taken at specific angles |