Hank Holiday

Your Learning Story

How I learned Rails - Part 2 - Developing a strategy.

  • March 25, 2014 at 7:40 PM
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After finishing the Rails tutorial I felt much more knowledgeable about Rails.  I also felt very ready to stop working on a fake app and start working on the real thing.

I spent a month or two developing wireframes and iterating them with feedback from my partner Ben and the potential users he was interviewing. Then I put together the first entity relationship diagram for the Badge List and tried to scope out a basic learning strategy.

My Self-Directed Learning Strategy

  1. Figure out what database and gems I wanted to use
  2. Learn about each gem
  3. Study up on ruby conventions
  4. Start coding the app!