Reboot

So this Journey has been going on for close to 2 years.
We're going to get it done this time.
Here is the new action Plan.

1. I will read through the Learn Rails Book: Learn Rails
2. I will then Work the examples from that book
3. I will read through The Rails Tutorial Book and then work the examples
4. I will Learn Ruby through RubyMonk, Codeacademy and Ruby the hard Way
5. Build several Sample Apps
6. Supplement this with copious reading of Stack exchange, Medium and Quora on Rails
7. Do Flatiron School Prework
8. Do some real world applications

Ruby on Rails Reboot

New Plan of action

This blog has been on break for the past 6 months.

Starting afresh now.

Here is the new plan

Following the Rick A Rubio Plan

I bought the following Course:
https://www.udemy.com/getting-started-with-ruby-on-rails/
I saved 75% off using the following Coupon Code: Udemy 75%off .

My new plan of action:

1. Read Tick A Rubio's Blog Posts
2. Read Josh Kemp's Book: No Degree, No Problem
3. Read Josh Kemps Blog
4. Read through Michael Hartl's Ruby on Rails Tutorial

Here is the path I will take: (all these are free resources except for the Udemy course)

1. Try Ruby (starting point as recommended by Michael Hartl)
2. Ruby Monk (Just going to go through the Ruby Primer again)
3. Learn to Program by Chris Pine
4. Rails for Zombies
5. Udemy – Getting Started with Ruby on Rails by Prof. Paul Krause
6. Ruby on Rails Tutorial by Michael Hartl

Update and Plan of Action

Update:
1. Watched the videos for Owning Rails Masterclass. Got a good basic understanding of the background to Rails. Got massive help by understanding Ruby Design Patterns.


2. Signed up for New Relic and deployed a rails app. So I should get a free 3 months membership to Code School. Should come in very handy.

More information is available here:
http://bit.ly/CSfNewRelic

3. This ebook is perfect for Rails beginners. It certainly helped me learn the basics of Rails and understand the foundations. Learn Rails

Action Plan

1. Finish Reading the Learn Rails ebook.
2. Read Jump Start Rails
3. Finish Ruby On Rails Tutorial
4. Go through Testing And Starter Apps on Rails Apps
5. Learn TDD And BDD
6. Write Sample Apps
7. Do skills assessment on freelance sites
8. Bid for jobs

Stay Calm and Hurry Back

Sorry for the brief hiatus from blogging.

Life got in the way.

I didn't stop learning rails just didn't get here to tell you what's happening.

So here is what I have been up to.

I went to the end of chapter 3 of the Rails tutorial.

I realized that I was just going through the exercises but I wasn't exactly learning or understanding what I was doing. I realized that I needed to understand rails so that I can develop on it. I need more information on the background to rails.

I did some research on the design patterns behind rails and I'm now going through agile web development with Ruby on rails. After this I will be going through the Rails Way.

On Saturday I will be going through a marathon tutorial session with my learning partner Dru.
We will be going through the videos to the owning Rails Class.

Hopefully by then I would have completed the Agile Web Development book and going through more of the rails tutorial.

Long days

So I set out today hoping to go through and finish the Lynda tutorial and then get started on the Michael Hartl tutorial.

However that never happened. As I mentioned before, I spoke with a friend today who was also learning rails. I mentioned that I couldn't get rails installed on windows and was using cloud based IDE's and cloud development servers. He suggested that I should look into ubuntu. He doesn't even dual boot, but only runs ubuntu on his laptop. I'm not so extreme and was considering a dual boot. However after reading the pros and cons, I decided against it and made up my mind to run ubuntu in a VirtualBox.

The EDx course recommended Oracle's virtualBox and they provided an Ubuntu image. I set it up, it took a couple hours but it was working well. After further observation, I founbd out that the version of rails and ruby they had was outdated. I tried to update it, but it said I wasnt root. I thought they gave me cripple ware, so I spent the next several hours downloading and configuring a fresh install of Ubuntu on VirtualBox. I only l;ater found out about sudo. LOL. So I'm now in the process of installing ruby and rails on this virtualBox. Its taking a while but i'm getting the hang of ubuntu and the command line. its kinda fun. So even though I spent several hours working on this , more like 9 hours, I'm very excited!

My next stop is just to go through the Michael Hartl Tutorial and try to finish quickly so I can catch up with Dru. I'm not too sure if I'll watch the rest of the Lynda titorials anyways. So we will see.

Over and Out!

Rails Goals

1. Install virtualBox
2. Install ubuntu
3. install ruby
4. Install rails
5. Install git
6. get going
7. finish lynda ruby tutorial this week
8. Finish Michael Hartl Turorial in 1 week
9. create sample facebook, twitter and todoist apps
10. port to herouko
11. Work on other rails sample projects
12. Learn TDD
13. do odesk rails test
14. Start bidding on odesk rails jobs
15. Look on CL for rails jobs
16. Work with Marc
17. Ask other jcan guy for work
18. Keep on working, learning and building sample apps till I get a work
19. Work with Dru
20. Setup our own rails shop
21. do rails full time
22. Do remote rails web dev
23. Work from anywhere
24. Be a global perpetual traveller

Back to work, B

So I have not done anything rails related for the past 3 days.
My trial week ends soon.
So my plan now is to finish watching the tutorial today (a holiday) while simultaneously going through the Michael Hartl tutorial. My goal is to finish the rails tutorial this week.

I spoke with a friend on the phone today. He told me that he has been learning rails too and is on chapter 10 of the ruby on Rails tutorial (http://ruby.railstutorial.org/). He was contacted by the same local guy who was looking for developers. He decided to learn Ruby and try to work for this guy soon. He said that its hard to work on your own so we decided to work together on this. I'll try to catch him up and then we will work together. There are a lot of opportunities both locally and online so we are going for it.

He suggested setting up ubuntu and doing a dual boot setup.

I could go the edx virtual box route too.
so my plan today is to set up the Oracle virtual box with Ubuntu and if thats not good enough then I will dual boot with ubuntu.

Set up rails in there and I'm good to go.

I'm also going through the lynda tutorials and the michael hartl tutorial.
aim is at least 3 - 6 hours today.