A couple of weeks ago I wrote about how I was going to bring together the chocolate and peanut butter that is databases and D&D–yes, all very geeky–and how OpenOffice Base failed me miserably. Well, I stumbled on an even better plan this time–we’ll call it (chocolate + peanut butter) * girls in bikinis–Ruby on Rails.

This afternoon I sucked in the 3.5 SRD, thanks to the fine folks over at the d20-xml group, and started fleshing out the structure using Ruby on Rails. I’ve been looking for a reason to really put RoR through its paces while learning more about it and this project seemed to be a good way to do it.

So far there is nothing groundbreaking, I’m going concentrate on making the SRD searchable and relational. After that I’ll begin fleshing out the tables and modules necessary to allow it to track characters and campaign data. I have next week off so I might get some coding done then and maybe will have something live in a couple of weeks for people to take for a spin.