Lynda done … days 11 & 12

And it’s on to the next thing

Okay so the last couple of days have been good.  Finished Lynda.com with Keven Skoglund and I sincerely hope he does a followup series.

The course goes through a good amount and spends time explaining MVC in detail.  Overall it is far easier than Learn Ruby by Example as there’s no BDD or TDD but that’s no bad thing.  Kevin makes a good point at the end of the series saying that TDD should come gradually, and I have to say I have to say I agree.  I’m all for TDD but at this stage in my Rails career I think it’s a bit much to spend over half my time writing tests when I’m still figuring out the ABCs.

The Plan

I have a couple of sites I want to develop.  One for the legal industry, a site to make sense of twitter data and a site to track my workouts (as I run and jog).

I’m g0ing to crack on with these in the order listed above.  I’m not sure where they’ll take me but I think it’ll be a useful few exercises in order to get me up to speed and standing on my own two feet.

Posts

I realise the last few posts have been short, I’m expecting them to expand as the learning curve takes another incline north.  Till then keep rubying …

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More CRUD more exercises, day 10

CRUD

Okay so up to the start of Chapter 14 on Lynda.com Ruby on Rails 3 Essential Training.  This tutorial has been a much slower pace but it is good.  There’s a lot of time spent explaining concepts then showing you how they work.  At the start of chapter 14 there’s a good lesson in CRUD.

Password encryption

Okay so this a bit different to the Learn By Example (LBE from now on).  First thing is that he doesn’t use the same encryption engine but that’s no big deal.  The second is that things are explained a little more clearly and dare I say made a little easier.  Both are good though.

Code

Important bit of code today was

rake secret

This code is used for changing your encrypted sessions cookies — one to put in the bank.

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