ruby

Ruby Day 4

Julia — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 23:20:25 -0800

I worked my way through Task E: Checkout in the Agile Development Book today. I find myself increasingly confused by what is going on behind the scenes as my depot project gets more complicated. So far, everything is still working, but I do not understand the logic behind all of the changes I am making to the application.

Although I do not totally "get it", I plan to continue and finish building my shopping cart application. After this, I am going to try and find more simplified ruby projects to work on. My preference is to work on small web application projects but I don't see a lot of example tutorials online. I might need to come up with something myself.

Back to the Very Beginning: Ruby on a Mac

Julia — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 00:29:29 -0800

Ruby: Day 3

Julia — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 21:56:15 -0800

Ruby: Day 2

Julia — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 10:22:49 -0800

Ruby is amazing for handling databases. I couldn't believe how easy it was to create an admin interface for my test demo application. The only problem I ran into today was adding a column to the database. I couldn't get the database table to updated after adding a price column. I finally realized that it was my fault for not reading page 2 of the book more carefully. Since Agile Web Development is written for Rails 1.2, I needed to install the Rails framework snapshot for the time being. I figured this out via the helpful errata page for the book.

Ruby: Day 1

Julia — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 23:18:49 -0800

I am starting to work my way through the new Agile Development book. My first problem seems to be that I get:
Application error (Rails)
depending on where I start my demo project from. I have noticed that when I type "ruby server" in my demo folder, the application doesn't fully start up. One strange aspect of this is that I am getting the Ruby Start page, but when I click on "about your application's environment,"Â I get an error. This problem seems to be solved by starting the server from the demo and not the script folder. When I typed "ruby script/server," the server started perfectly.