I finished Michael Hartl’s intro series to Ruby on Rails.
In the process, I learned a lot about the web in general and website design.
I also learned a lot (and I mean a lot) about patience! Turns out attempting to do a tutorial written in 2010 in 2013 is hard given the blinding rate at which Ruby and its gems are updated.
I also learned about command line use, Github, Heroku, Git, Ruby, and lots of other stuff. The series is quite comprehensive!
The end result is the following website:
And the source code is on Github.
The site will not win any web design awards, but I am pretty happy with it. Pictures are included at the end of this post in case the site doesn’t work in the future.
Here are links to the tutorial:
— Screenshots —
generic home page,
signup page
successful signup
all members
a member’s profile
on follow
people you follow
personalized home page
making a post
settings page
Update (May 2015):
The screencasts used to be available on YouTube. I actually never touched the e-book preferring videos to pages on pages of text. Too bad they were taken down. Seems that the videos are now available only if purchased =/. Well, at least the book is still free…