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Amelia Bedelia Learns to Code
Kylie Stradley
Rails Conf 2015-Atlanta, GA
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Welcome to Atlanta
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@kyfast
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Meet Amelia Bedelia
Illustration from: “Calling Doctor Amelia Bedelia”
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Sound Familiar?
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Amelia the Developer
Illustration from: “Amelia Bedelia, Bookworm”
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Amelia Saves the Day
Illustration from: “Merry Christmas, Amelia Bedelia”
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Amelia Bedelia Learns to Code
by: Kylie Stradley
illustrations by: San Smith
inspired by: Peggy & Herman Parish
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Nice to
meet
you :]
“Talking to a computer? That sounds like fun!”
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“_WHY Ruby? _WHY not Ruby?”
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“This Ruby on Rails stuff is easy!”
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So what does Amelia do?
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Amelia edits the db/schema.rb
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Oh no!
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the Rails Scaffold covers most things
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So what does Amelia do?
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Amelia uses Rails Scaffold for everything
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!!!!!!
Got it!
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I want to write Rails like the designers intended
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So what does Amelia do?
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Writing Rails like DHH would
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!!!!!!
Got it!
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“I need to make a lot of routes”
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So what does Amelia do?
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Amelia rakes the routes
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rake
!=
activate
routes
!=
migrations
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“These gems are pretty handy!”
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So what does Amelia do?
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Carrie & Fred say, “Put a gem on it!”
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Not so
fast! Got it!
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“I know what do with params in a Rails app”
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So what does Amelia do?
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Amelia adds the value to the params hash
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parameters
!= params
oops!
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“I’ve made that mistake with dates before too”
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So what does Amelia do?
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Amelia uses DateTime when she needs dates, even for cakes!
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The End
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that’s not really how it is though
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it’s more like this:
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WAT
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these things happen
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beginners make a lot of mistakes
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and that’s okay
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advanced developers make a lot of mistakes
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and that’s okay, too
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a place that’s safe to make mistakes is a
place that’s safe to learn
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Illustrations by:
San Smith
san-smith.com
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Kylie Farrah Stradley
@kyfast
kyfast.net