Monday, July 4, 2011

Rails 3.1 Tutorials

Since I got back into working with Agile Web Development with Rails, I've been thinking about what my next step should be. I suffer under the burden of too many options of things I want to learn and/or work on. I want to work on my knowledge of Ruby, and I think that's a good place to start.

But I just found some Rails 3.1 tutorials on Git the other day, and that sounds like a good choice, too.

Another Rails friend of mine (@SpencerCooley) was talking about how he feels more productive when he's less afraid of breaking his code. I've felt this way for a while now. Remember when I used to just restart an application as soon as I broke the code, because it was less of a hassle to repeat what I knew how to do than to figure out how to fix the things I didn't? How are you supposed to grow and develop working that way? You won't, dummy!

So now that I'm more experienced, I feel way more confident in my ability to not only figure out what is giving me an error, but I feel better equipped to go about trying to solve it. I've got a better grasp on how to talk about what I'm doing. You may have noticed I haven't been updating this blog as often lately. My higher level of confidence in my ability to solve my own problem is partly to blame for this. Still, I need to get back in the habit of updating my blog whenever I code, and I need to get back in the habit of coding every day. No more lazy Fridays, you hear me?

Also, I think I'm just going to use Twitter handles when referring to other Rails enthusiasts from now on.

1 comment:

  1. Cool, I'm in a blog post. This reminds of a presentation that dhh gave. He talks about how starting your app all over again is the worst thing you can do. It's a pretty cool video. Kinda long though. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJkiCpPeYuI&feature=youtube_gdata_player

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