Laura's Learnings

Oh dear. Here I go falling back in to my old habits of not blogging frequently enough. It’s just that I’ve been so busy! You see, this past weekend, we had our first hackathon. Unlike what my parents originally thought, this does not mean hacking in to the FBI’s website. It’s basically just a long [...]

Week 4 – boom. roasted. This week, we really dug into the 7 actions for a resource, as that is pivotal to our understanding of this crazy thing called Rails. I must admit, I actually have a decent grasp on it. For the most part, I know what goes where and what comes next in [...]

Turns out that doing the homework DOES pay off because I FINALLY had an “ah-ha!” moment today! As an added bonus, it was a shared “ah-ha” because my roommate, Tam, was working with me so we made the discovery together. Now I know how Columbus felt! Tam and I were reviewing the Ice Cream app [...]

Today, we finally did something where the fruits of our labor appeared on an actual webpage – we created a database and a form and they “spoke” to one another! One of the endless other things I struggle with in this whole “code world” is relating the syntax to actual real-world examples. I’m very visual [...]

Today, we continued our review of Rails and learned more about MVC basics and generating a new model. We also briefly touched on databases, which is of particular interest to me since my legacy site will rely quite heavily on a database. It seems like the database functionality in Ruby is much more seamless than [...]