Question

I am currently creating an application that has a user, the user can follow others, post content, amongst a few other features and am wondering what would be the most ideal way to store and create data for a demo. I started building a rails site but felt that is becoming fairly time consuming for a demo application. Does anyone have any suggestions? pLists, JSON file, XML files?

Answer 1

What is the nature and size of the data?

• pLists are convenient for a few dozen lines since they are easily converted into a dictionary at runtime.
• If you have hundreds of items, you’re probably better off writing an xml file and parsing it.