Daily blog
I’m on a killer roll right now blowing through this NYC lab. Built my 3 tables and 1 JOIN table migrations. Built out the associated models. Built out all the views and one controller. Have one controller and it’s views left now. If I didn’t have kids that were going to wake me up between 6:30am and 8:00am I’d finish it up. I think it’ll take me maybe 30 more mins (mostly because A LOT of it is going to be similar to the controller & views I just built) but sleep is needed.
Got a large lab done tonight. Right on schedule. I was done 2 minutes after 11pm. I basically took the Music Library CLI app that I made earlier in the curriculum and turned it into a much more user friendly Sinatra MVC web app. The final code can be found here. The biggest challenge I had was setting up my databases and models. Actually, just with the JOIN table. However, I know the more I do this the easier it will get.
Today was the day of road blocks. I spent probably 3 hours working with Learn Experts on problems. For the most part these were dev environment issues or weird test issues and not working through my code and learning new things. I did learn some things about debugging though. I learned to check my Gemfile because if a gem is missing weird things happen. I’m not sure how I was able to run shotgun without having the gem in the Gemfile but it worked and then I got odd errors in my browser.
I moved through a lot of curriculum today. However, I really want to hit the goal I set two weeks ago and I’m on the cusp of it! I had 21 lessons/labs to go for my goal when I checked early in the day. So I set a goal of 11 more today (I had laready finished 2) and finish tomorrow. I missed it by one only because it’s late and I hit an hour and a half review lecture.
So nested forms aren’t as bad as I thought they would be. I guess it helps that I had some good teaching before I got into it. I think I had the longest video yet to watch tonight and that took up most of the time once I finished the lab I started last night. The lab I’m on seems to be more of the same just getting the concept to stick with a more in depth nested form.
