Recently i started a todo list manager project as a way to learn ruby on rails.

Though this is not my first rails project, am still in the learning phase.

i wanted to create a simple to-do list manager with UI as simple as twitter.

One textbox to write the task to be done and thats it.

i did not want to have a calendar link to select due date , no options to select the priority… etc.

i want to capture maximum details possible in the single text box.

later i can extract the details using regular expression in the controller

(Aaah… regular expression another topic in my to-read list.)

First it was a little difficult for me to get the right regex for the string patterns,

later with a (first)question posted in stackoverflow.com i got the solution for that.

thanks to @Jens and @sawa for providing the right regex for my need.

still i keep getting ideas to make it as easy as possible for a user to enter his/her todo task with all details in

a single text box, but each idea is making the code more complex.

i am working on this project with a very little spare time that i get, so it may take sometime to make it online and publish the code in github.