Thursday, January 1, 2015
Week's Updates....
Still working through Practicing Rails book... I got side-tracked doing the basic Rubyonrails.org Getting Started Simple Blog tutorial.
I also found a Udemy course on creating a Craigslist clone using RoR that I blasted through and completed in 2 days, over NYE and New Year's day! It didn't use any scaffolding and involved doing different things than I have in other tutorials - populating db using seeds.rb, geocode gem, creating a search function using JS, 4 models interacting with one another, etc. It was a good tutorial and helped take some of the automagic mystery away from RoR. I appreciated that it didn't rely on scaffolding to build out folders and files in the MVC, I feel like my understanding is getting better and better. I think I'm going to be in good shape when I tackle Hartl's Rails tutorial soon.
My husband is going through One Month Rails before my subscription ends. Adding RoR to his programming background is a good thing and will allow us to pair program and work on a project together. I hope. It's sometimes hard for me to expect him to want to learn/do more programming when he has been programming in another language/enviro all day, every day for work.