Category Archives: Ruby on Rails

Learning Rails, Take 2

I happened across Code School’s “Rails for Zombies” today (I’d seen a link to “Try Git“, was impressed, and started poking around), and holy cow, it might actually stick now!

Three things about it:

  1. Immediately they recommended going through “Try Ruby” if you didn’t already have familiarity with the language. That got me a taste of the syntax, which is pleasantly sane.
  2. There isn’t any futzing about with setting up an environment. Where I got stuck (initially) was just in setting up the environment on my machine.
  3. Lots of little bits of trial and error, following VERY short videos. With two monitors, I’ve got the slides open nearby so I can skim back and forth to see the exact syntax & whatnot. I’ve been doing all the extra credit just to get it to stick better.

So I’m optimistic.

when you get lost at an easy step

It’s really hard to get up to speed learning something in a group if you get stuck or lost right off the bat with something that ought to be really easy. Thus, this micro-class in Ruby. Gonna start over from scratch later. Much later.

Also, curiously enough, I’m having a hard time using the laptop on its own, because I keep wanting to touch the screen to navigate, like I would on my Asus Transformer. On top of that, it doesn’t help that I don’t yet know my way around terminal on mac.

Doesn’t help either that it’s the middle of the afternoon, which is not my best time to do anything.