I didn't do much coding outside of work during the week. Work has been fine, I feel like I'm progressing at a good rate, but outside of work, it was a rough week, so I couldn't put in much effort to coding during my free time.
But, I did spend late night friday/early saturday morning working through a Elixir tutorial that I had been wanting to tackle for a few weeks. I successful went through it pretty quickly and got a fairly simple CRUD quotes app working perfectly locally. However, I spent more time than that trying to get the deployment to Heroku (not in the tutorial) to work and failed.
To make sure it wasn't me or a dev environment issue (didn't figure it was, since it was running perfectly locally, but did it for a sanity check...), I cloned another sample elixir app and quickly set it up and deployed it easily, so I think based on the heroku error logs that there's some maybe dependencies issue going on. It's kinda weird working with such a new framework like Phoenix, where it is so new that you git clone the framework directly onto your machine to use it. For this specific tutorial, I was git checking out a specific branch with an older version of the framework to use... and maybe in deployment that's getting jacked. I think maybe this is where my issue lies, but I'm not sure. I gave up on trying to fix this project's deployment, I'd rather spend time learning something else or doing my own independent project to practice that waste more time on this one. I'm glad there was this tutorial to do, but I wish it would have spent a lot less time on making the CSS snazzy and instead go through the deployment process. I'd like some reassurance that this app was successfully deployed with its specific config settings even if it visually looks ugly! :-/
Today, I also finished up another segment in the Treehouse jQuery course. I'm 1/2 through that course. It's hard jumping back into studying something like jQuery with several days of break in between. Takes a while to get my head back in it.
I'm still slowing reading POODR, probably 3/4 through it. It's getting more difficult to keep up at the end. But, I'm just trying not to get hung up on every little thing that's over my head and power through for now, since I plan to re-read it again in a few months.
I constantly feel like I need to keep pushing to learn and try out other languages like JS or elixir and not be solely vested in Ruby, since who knows if/when Ruby on Rails is going fade into the background. But after experimenting with Elixir, it's clear that I really do love coding in Ruby. It's just such a readable and pretty language, I'm not sure how you couldn't like it. I'm really glad that I started out my coding adventure with Ruby and Rails. And I'm happy it's what I work with, at least for now.
