Day 5️⃣: Small Steps to Rails

If you haven’t been following this series, you can read all articles about my career break here. Read about yesterday here.

Today was mostly life outside the editor. A few chores and reconnecting with a friend. Not a lot of code, but it still counts.

Got in under an hour with Ruby on Rails (thanks to David Morales’ LinkedIn course). Kept it basic:

• Reviewed how a Rails project is laid out.
• Manually created a controller, view, and route to render a simple “Hello, World” page.
• Used Rails Generator to quickly spin up another controller, then destroyed it after a quick test.

For those new to Rails (just like me!): it is built around the Model-View-Controller (MVC) structure. Models are where your app’s data and logic live, Views are what the user sees, and Controllers connect the two invoking the data (models) and rendering pages.

Today was about getting comfortable with navigating a Rails project and working with views and controllers. Tomorrow, kicking things off with Models.

Stay tuned for more updates tomorrow! 🙌

Also Read

My another article that I wrote today about the importance of letting go of old identities to keep growing: Site / Substack