Harini Learns Ruby

git clean -df & git checkout .

cap deploy:rollback -s previous_release=/path/to/release/on/server

Harini Learns Ruby turned 1 today!

Every programmer occasionally, when nobody's home, turns off the lights, pours a glass of scotch, puts on some light German electronica, and opens up a file on their computer. It's a different file for every programmer. Sometimes they wrote it, sometimes they found it and knew they had to save it. They read over the lines, and weep at their beauty, then the tears turn bitter as they remember the rest of the files and the inevitable collapse of all that is good and true in the world.

I haven't posted here for a while. Not because I've stopped learning Ruby, but because I've switched gears and am trying to learn it a different way.

I learn best by doing. And it's obvious that I "do/make something" in order to learn a programming language. So I've partnered with a friend to make a PoC (proof of concept) for one of his ideas. Because it's not my idea, I get to concentrate on just one thing - learning; Learning how to do what he wants done, in the best possible way. I know my code won't be super optimal, or maybe it will be. But I'm happy to work on this because I've learned so much in the past few days, just trying to solve simple problems. 

One Month Rails has been really helpful in getting me up and running with the basics. I enrolled in this class a few months ago while it was still on Skillshare for $25 and it is the best $$ I've spent this year! I know I can learn all this by just going through Hartl's tutorial, but with the recent changes to Rails and Ruby versions, it has been hard to not get stuck in different parts of the tutorial (and that frustrates me & makes me give up. I'm human!!!). 

Stackoverflow has been a life-saver, as always. 

Since not getting through App Academy, I've not looked at any other programming bootcamps, but I'm considering Bloc.io, which looks like a much better fit for what I want to accomplish.

I completed 4 chapters from Hartl's tutorial today. It has mostly been setting up, understanding the file structure created when rails new is invoked and a general look at Ruby in the context of a Rails application.

We are yet to get to the more important parts of the tutorial, but the rate at which I'm studying, I should be done by the end of this weekend! (Yes, I have no fun plans for the weekend because I wasted last week by not doing anything remotely related to coding!!)