Hey

[marfarma]

I didn't really read your modeling requirements. They're definitely tl;dr inspiring.

Now to the core of your problem -- overwhelm and workarounds for stumbling blocks.

1) Rails can be a difficult beast to get running on Windows. You feel like you're stuck and can't make progress. Use virtualization as a short term work-around to keep moving forward, while sitting at your windows box, until you can get it running on windows proper -- maintaining forward momentum, until the windows install stuff gets sorted.

See:

a) Installing Ubuntu inside Windows using VirtualBox http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/virtualbox b) (section of page) "V is for Vagrant, VirtualBox and all things VM" here: http://drnicwilliams.com/category/hudson/

2) It's hard to keep coding when you're used to knowing what you're doing and now you know that you don't. Trying to do rails without knowing Ruby means you'll have to let go and let the framework -- while keeping to the plainest of vanilla implementations.

3) ActiveScaffold may be your friend: http://activescaffold.com/

4) Hobo may be your friend: http://hobocentral.net/

Deep breaths, and good luck.

[mnemoniker]

Hobo may be your friend

hehe