Holding you to your promise

Chapter 10.3 “Your first challenge in learning Rails is installing Ruby on your computer.” No shit. “Frankly, this can be the most difficult step in learning Rails because no tutorial can sort out the specific configuration of your computer.”  Daniel Kehoe, I am holding you to your claim, ‘cuz I am done with the RoR…

At least something I know

Chapter 8 – Plan Your Product.  Doing mental jumping for joy right now.  At least I know very well how to write user stories and practicing agile software development.  That’s been my job for a while.  Hooray for me! Since I have mostly worked on the backend, there is a whole lot of FE work…

Need help?

Still on the first book “Learn Ruby on Rail”.  But I am on Chapter 7 – Get Help When You Need It.  Pat on myself on the back for getting to Chapter 7.   Oh yeah, I am gonna need a lot of help.  I am so excited about learning what the fuck these gems…

Why not learn something hard

I’ve decided to learn Ruby on Rail, despite being about 10 years late and being warned against it by multiple people. Even the classic RoR for dummies book “Learn Ruby on Rail” puts up 16 challenges. Obstacle #1: It’s difficult to install Ruby – no kidding. I almost threw away my one-month old Mac Pro…