Probably the last thing you wanna read…

So, I’ve been trying to teach myself Ruby On Rails as some of you might have gathered. I’ve been reading books and scouring the internet for tutorials and the like and while several of the tutorials are good, I’ve found that the easiest way for me to learn is through just building the thing I want to build. You pick up a lot of stuff from the books but some of the concepts are kind of difficult to get your head around until you just do it. The special lady is probably just sick to death of me talking about it so much but I’m really enjoying it (she keeps talking about my girlfriend Ruby which is a bad sign). The part about Rails that I have been having the most difficulty with is Views. For those who are unacquainted, the view is obviously where what you see is written. I though that this would be the easiest part of it. I know HTML. I know CSS but for some reason, when I got into the view, I would just get lost. Building something from scratch and looking up in tutorials how problems get solved so I can solve them myself is way better. I’m sure as I build my app* I’ll see how things go together better and how to stay DRY. In the meantime, I’ll just keep chugging along, learning at my own pace and enjoying the experience.

*The application will be a custom CMS that will handle blog entries, products and ordering, receipt printing and a little more. I think it’s a lot to try to take on so, we’ll just see where it takes me.