Rails Study Group Day 1

Setting up your machine for development

Transcript

1. Rails Study Group
2. How this goes https://vimeo.com/67408449
4. Disclaimer • I am not an expert • You must be a self startin’ go gettin’ kind • This will be a lot of work • This is not for everyone
5. • Circa 2004 • Open Source • Rich community
6. • Ruby - Flexible and Expressive • Convention over Configuration • Rails provides DSL for web application
7. Tools of the Trade • Terminal • (native, or ITerm2) • Git https://desktop.github.com/ • Text Editor • (Atom, Sublime Text, Vim, RubyMine) • Browser • (https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/) • PostgreSQL • (http://postgresapp.com/) • Gem & Rails & Bundler
8. Git You Need to know • git clone • git status • git checkout • git push/git pull • git merge • git branch
9. Expectations • create git hub account • clone one repo locally • try to create a hello_world Rails app and push to your own repo
10. –Michael Hartl “Even for experienced Rails developers, installing Ruby, Rails, and all the associated supporting software can be an exercise in frustration.”
11. Docs • http://guides.rubyonrails.org/ • http://ruby-doc.org/core-2.3.0/ • https://www.railstutorial.org/book
12. Even More Resources • https://www.codecademy.com/learn • https://rubymonk.com/ • http://learnrubythehardway.org/book/ • http://railsforzombies.org/ • http://rubykoans.com/