This last weekend I got to participate in #INCapitolHack. A hackathon to help create solutions for the city of Indianapolis Indiana. This was my first hackathon and I wanted to share some of my experience with other working-to-be developers. The event started Friday night with an overview of the event to come and team creation time. One of the biggest thing I will say is get on a team before the event....
This weekend I have the honor of participating and the #INCapitolHack hosted by the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce. While I’ll be typing up another post about my experience and what we did. I wanted to take the time to type up what was in my bag for the event, to help new comers feel prepared for going to their first hackathon. Being my first hackathon I wasn’t to sure what I might need or should bring so I made sure to have a little big of everything....
So far I have stuck to my guns and continued to develop with Ruby on Rails on a Windows machine. I am overall quite happy with my experience although I have ran into some fun roadblocks. One of the biggest issues I have found with developing on Windows has been Ruby Gems not fully supporting it. The first Gem I encountered with issues was “ReRun” a nice little gem that would auto reload my Sinatra app when it noticed files had been changed....
It has been a fun month so far. I just wrapped up “Learn Ruby the Hard Way” finishing the two books from “No Degree, No Problem” you read before getting into rails. Next step I’m starting today is “One Month Rails”. I reviewed the site last night and almost signed up but as its a monthly charge I decided to wait until the start of my study time today. This actually worked out really well because as I was 1/2 though the checkout process then quick on the credit card screen they sent me a coupon in my email for the first month for only $1 instead of the $45 I was about to pay last night....
A nice thing to have in your Ruby journey will be a skeleton project so you can quickly get up and running when you need to create a new project. For this we will be setting up in a windows environment using Powershell and Visual Studio’s Code callabled by “code”. First we will create our skeleton project folder and its sub folders. mkdir skeleton``cd skeleton``mkdir bin, data, doc, ext, lib, tests, lib/PROJECT...
It’s been a pretty crazy February for me. However, I wanted to take some time just to catch up on progress and whats going on. I’m just passed the 1/2 mark of “Learn Ruby The Hard Way”. Hopefully with some free time and extra boost of determination I got this last week I should be able to close the gap and finish this book up in the next week or two....