I have set up the file structure, Installed gems and used rake db
I am now fleshing out my main.rb file. I migrated both the url table and the comments table. Next, I will create skeleton erb files then tackle the conversion of the url
Chugging along, no real milestones yet.
I am keeping on keeping on. I have decided that I will no linger need a seperate page for a discussion. I will put the discussion about each url within the url's path page
I am getting back into the groove of this project, made minor changes
okay, we are getting somewhere. I am now able to enter a url and have  a dummy short url be generated (for placeholder sake I just set the new url to be rand(26).com. Next, I am going to populate the database with a few urls
I am done thinking about this for now, will come back to it in a few. Added to-do list in README.md
Made some progress, but now I have to rollback migrations and add the id columns to the comment and url tables
created test.rb to play around with the code that was created in the screencast tutorial. Trying to follow their logic
Now working on debugging current application, so I can tackle larger issues with the application
So i spent the last hour and a half throughly commenting out out ben's code. and am now going to work on mine. My first course of action is to change all /index to / for simplicity sake
basic housekeeping. I took out the table in the index erb, because it seemed like an awful way to format the page. I also changed all /index paths to simple / paths
combined new and index erb files
I have updated my tables to allow my comments to have a link_id, and seperate created_at and updated_at times. I have also seperated the times for the links
further weeding out unneeded code
progress made