#hartl tutorial

[harinilearnsruby]

Done with 4 chapters!

I completed 4 chapters from Hartl's tutorial today. It has mostly been setting up, understanding the file structure created when rails new is invoked and a general look at Ruby in the context of a Rails application.

We are yet to get to the more important parts of the tutorial, but the rate at which I'm studying, I should be done by the end of this weekend! (Yes, I have no fun plans for the weekend because I wasted last week by not doing anything remotely related to coding!!)

Happy (almost) 4th of July!

[harinilearnsruby]

Learning resources from Hartl's tutorial - Chapter 1

Ruby & Rails

Beginning Ruby by Peter Cooper

Try Ruby

Rails for Zombies

Rails tutorial screencast series

Code School

The Well-Grounded Rubyist

The Ruby Way

RailsCasts

PeepCode

Rails Guides

Rails Tutorial help page

HTML & CSS

Head First HTML

CSS: The Missing Manual

IDEs

RadRails

RubyMine

3rd Rail

How to use RubyMine

Text Editors & Command Lines

Sublime Text 2

TextMate

Vim

iTerm

Rails Tutorial Sublime Text

Git

Pro Git

[harinilearnsruby]

Self imposed coding bootcamp!

Over the last few days I've been so distracted that I have gotten no solid work done on the hartl tutorial. Bad, very bad. So I'm imposing a coding bootcamp on myself. This self-imposed bootcamp will include coding, eating-coding-pizza-coding-maybe some sleep-coding-coffee-coding. Not in that same order, but you get the drift. 

I'm done with the basic steps of creating my application, setup version control using Git and deployed it on Heroku. But actual work on the app has not begun yet! So, here is to having a productive long weekend.

[harinilearnsruby]

Learning Web Development with Hartl

My goal for today is to work on Hartl's tutorial. Not sure how much I'll be able to finish in a day, but I'm going to keep on going till I'm done. 

While Hartl talks about making a demo Twitter app through the tutorial, I want to use it to make something that is a bit more useful to me - so going to try to execute on an idea I've had for a while. Maybe by the end of the tutorial, I'll have a bare-bones version of what I had in mind.