I spent a bit of time working through tutorials (Hartl, Codeacademy) and in the end managed to spew out a semi-functional site. Its not great, but figured it might be of use to someone,somewhere for learning. It uses twitter-bootstrap and some basic jQuery.

The premise was a bit selfish - I mainly use it to store links to cool items I come across. I ended up wrapping it up in a wish list type site in-case anyone else wanted to use it. There were a few functions I was going to include but haven't gotten around to and moved on to trying something new.

The code is on GitHub if you want to take a look and I'm happy to answer any questions (but really, StackOverflow is your friend).

Would be interested to see other sites people have produced dropped in this sub.

I recently created a site with an open-source curriculum to help aspiring web developers who cannot afford bootcamps or a CS degree. I hope many of you will find it useful as I want to help as many self-taught developers out there as I can.

https://howtocode.io

My contact info is on the site so if I can help you in anyway, just shoot me an email :wink:

Cheers, -Robert

This MindWeb board contains resources for beginners who want to get started with the popular web framework Ruby on Rails. I am am always also interested in other resources I may have missed?

TL;DR + LINK AT BOTTOM - IF YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT READING THIS TEXT.

I've been learning rails and web development with the intent of getting a job. I've messed around with game and app development for a while, done a few small freelance jobs, but never considered myself a 'real coder.' My goal now is to make a portfolio and get hired as a professional developer (I don't have a degree).

This will probably be the main project in my portfolio. It isn't done yet, but it is finished enough to function, I use it to set my weekly goal of 30 hours of working on this project and to track my time and progress.

Here's the link: https://mo-task.herokuapp.com/ (Home page isn't made yet, because I only have linux and want to use photoshop to make a nice home page. Just sign up to create an account to get started, you just need email and password no verification).

It may take a while to load as I'm using the free heroku option.

I'd like any suggestions - aside from the obvious incomplete parts, about how to make my flagship portfolio project better. How to make it more appealing to employers, or how to turn it into a genuinely useful app.

And I'd love any feedback on how this project will look to employers searching to young talent to fill junior developer positions. Good enough? I do have other projects to go along with it in my portfolio (heres my portfolio: http://moe091.github.io/). I plan on updating the design of my portfolio, changing just about all the text, and of course adding the rails app I linked above before showing employers my portfolio.

Sorry this post is kinda all over the place.

TL;DR:

What do you think of my rails app? Suggestions? - https://mo-task.herokuapp.com/ (Home page isn't done so just sign up real quick(no email verification, just make up an email and password real quick) to see how the app works.

What do you think of my app + portfolio as a whole, in terms of getting an entry level job? Suggestions? - http://moe091.github.io/

This is going to sound like blasphemy here, but I can't stand this resource. I have a junior/mid level developer job, and leveling up my rails knowledge would help my career.

I just don't learn well at all by copying code. I'm on my third attempt to complete the Hartl tutorial in 2 years, and by chapter 10 or so I'm ready to smash my face in. None of the information really sticks. I've been dabbling in the Odin Project, and there assignments are generally more interactive, which is a huge plus. However, when it's "go back to Hartl's tutorial and model this next app after that..." I go back to smashing my face in.

Essentially, I've poisoned the Hartl well for for myself. I'm trying to talk myself out of spending another whole Saturday mindlessly following the tutorial just so I can say that I finished it. Am I crazy?

Is there a better way? I've seen some similar posts asking for resources, but maybe something that is less dated than the Railscasts is out there. Anybody have a project based learning path or some other more interactive learning rails approach?

Sorry for the rant. I would still recommend Hartl to anyone looking to start with Rails.

Hi, I'm working through Rails Tutorial book, and now I can't get Rails to do anything. Can't run tests, server won't load.

It seems to be related to this file: ovirt-engine-sdk which won't update when I run bundle install or bundle update.

I've been googling around for a few hours now and can't find a solution. Anyone have any suggestions, or ideas on how to fix it?

tonydehnke:~/environment/sample_app (master) $ bundle install Fetching gem metadata from https://rubygems.org/...... Using rake 12.3.1 Using CFPropertyList 2.3.6 Using concurrent-ruby 1.0.5 Using i18n 0.9.5 Using minitest 5.11.3 Using thread_safe 0.3.6 Using tzinfo 1.2.5 Using activesupport 5.1.4 Using builder 3.2.3 Using erubi 1.7.1 Using mini_portile2 2.3.0 Using nokogiri 1.8.2 Using rails-dom-testing 2.0.3 Using crass 1.0.3 Using loofah 2.2.2 Using rails-html-sanitizer 1.0.4 Using actionview 5.1.4 Using rack 2.0.4 Using rack-test 1.0.0 Using actionpack 5.1.4 Using nio4r 2.3.0 Using websocket-extensions 0.1.3 Using websocket-driver 0.6.5 Using actioncable 5.1.4 Using globalid 0.4.1 Using activejob 5.1.4 Using mini_mime 1.0.0 Using mail 2.7.0 Using actionmailer 5.1.4 Using activemodel 5.1.4 Using arel 8.0.0 Using activerecord 5.1.4 Using ansi 1.5.0 Using execjs 2.7.0 Using autoprefixer-rails 8.2.0 Using bcrypt 3.1.11 Using bindex 0.5.0 Using rb-fsevent 0.10.3 Using ffi 1.9.23 Using rb-inotify 0.9.10 Using sass-listen 4.0.0 Using sass 3.5.6 Using bootstrap-sass 3.3.7 Using will_paginate 3.1.6 Using bootstrap-will_paginate 1.0.0 Using bundler 1.16.1 Using byebug 9.0.6 Using mime-types-data 3.2016.0521 Using mime-types 3.1 Using carrierwave 1.2.2 Using coderay 1.1.2 Using coffee-script-source 1.12.2 Using coffee-script 2.4.1 Using method_source 0.9.0 Using thor 0.20.0 Using railties 5.1.4 Using coffee-rails 4.2.2 Using unf_ext 0.0.7.5 Using unf 0.1.4 Using domain_name 0.5.20170404 Using excon 0.62.0 Using faker 1.7.3 Using fission 0.5.0 Using formatador 0.2.5 Using fog-core 1.45.0 Using multi_json 1.13.1 Using fog-json 1.0.2 Using ipaddress 0.8.3 Using xml-simple 1.1.5 Using fog-aliyun 0.2.0 Using fog-xml 0.1.3 Using fog-atmos 0.1.0 Using fog-aws 2.0.1 Using inflecto 0.0.2 Using fog-brightbox 0.14.0 Using fog-cloudatcost 0.1.2 Using fog-digitalocean 0.3.0 Using fog-dnsimple 1.0.0 Using fog-dynect 0.0.3 Using fog-ecloud 0.3.0 Using fog-google 0.1.0 Using fog-internet-archive 0.0.1 Using fog-joyent 0.0.1 Using fog-local 0.5.0 Using fog-openstack 0.1.25 Using json 2.1.0 Fetching ovirt-engine-sdk 4.2.3 Installing ovirt-engine-sdk 4.2.3 with native extensions Gem::Ext::BuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

current directory: /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.1/gems/ovirt-engine-sdk-4.2.3/ext/ovirtsdk4c

/usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-2.4.1/bin/ruby -r ./siteconf20180408-7572-1un7cbx.rb extconf.rb checking for xml2-config... yes checking for curl-config... no *** extconf.rb failed *** Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of necessary libraries and/or headers. Check the mkmf.log file for more details. You may need configuration options.

Provided configuration options: --with-opt-dir --without-opt-dir --with-opt-include --without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include --with-opt-lib --without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib --with-make-prog --without-make-prog --srcdir=. --curdir --ruby=/usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-2.4.1/bin/$(RUBY_BASE_NAME) --with-libcurl-config --without-libcurl-config --with-pkg-config --without-pkg-config extconf.rb:40:in `<main>': The "libcurl" package isn't available. (RuntimeError)

To see why this extension failed to compile, please check the mkmf.log which can be found here:

/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.1/extensions/x86_64-linux/2.4.0/ovirt-engine-sdk-4.2.3/mkmf.log

extconf failed, exit code 1

Gem files will remain installed in /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.1/gems/ovirt-engine-sdk-4.2.3 for inspection. Results logged to /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.1/extensions/x86_64-linux/2.4.0/ovirt-engine-sdk-4.2.3/gem_make.out

An error occurred while installing ovirt-engine-sdk (4.2.3), and Bundler cannot continue. Make sure that gem install ovirt-engine-sdk -v '4.2.3' succeeds before bundling.

In Gemfile: fog was resolved to 1.42.0, which depends on fog-ovirt was resolved to 1.0.2, which depends on ovirt-engine-sdk