As I work through project week, I find myself feeling a sense of pride. All of a sudden rails began clicking for me. I’ve learned to embrace errors and not fear them. Becoming friends with ‘byebug’ instead of it being an after thought. How to read the errors and google tirelessly for the answer and to not be afraid to keep trying.
Rails is like magic and a nightmare at the same time. There are so many concepts to take in and understand in a short amount of time. Sinatra has put me a week behind and I work tirelessly and to catch up and understand the lessons that is being being taught to me. Its not very easy, but I’m not a quitter.
I can’t explain the happiness that I felt when I was told I passed my assessment. I loved the little website I built and I put in a lot of hard work. I wanted my reviewer to love it too and he did. The website that I had built worked without no issues. I made a few last minute changes to prevent users not logged in from navigate throughout the website after speaking with another student and getting the idea. If a user trys to navigate to any page that is only for logged in users it will route them back to the landing page (homepage). I also looked up how to apply validations so it will flash an error message if the user doesn’t populate an required field.
Sinatra, I fear, will get me kicked out of the program. I was already behind. Studying in the early a.m. to up my skills in Tableau and Power BI. Working in the morning until the late afternoon and the rest of the evening making my way through Sinatra. I am really burnt out. Prone to falling asleep for split seconds at a time nearly falling out my chair a few times.
As I work through Sinatra, I can’t help but wonder how tough my next project is going to be. Despite this worry I remain very excited about learning how to develop websites. A lot of the same concepts apply from when we created class methods, but now we are just utilizing it in a new way. I love how we are able create submit buttons just with a few lines of code and be able to display how little by little we bring our website to life. Already I’m beginning to formulate ideas on what my project could be.