Oh boy, I struggled with this alot more than I should’ve. For some reason I just couldn’t wrap my head around setting up rails to be a backend API for Rails. At first Redux seemed terrifying, but once I heard that “click” everything just started to fall into place.
I always learn a ton when going through these portfolio projects. This time around I got to use Paperclip, Amazon AWS to upload the pictures to cloud storage, and of course a bit of Jquery. Rails can feel a bit like magic sometimes. That magic gets shattered when you have to throw in some Javascript/AJAX. Man-oh-man, was doing this project withoure remote: true rough. Almost all of the documentation online suggests doing it this way. By all-in-all I think my project turned out great. I love the formatting of it and would totally use it if it were a real site. I’ll continue working on it and see where it goes from here.
This project caused me a bit of a headache. But its a fun addition to my toolbelt.
This project was a bit of a doozy. I had to flip through some of the previous labs such as the Fwitter (Oh man, THIS HELPED A TON). That gave me a good basis on how to set everything up. I felt pretty confident with the project while I was creating it. When I “finished” the project I was super proud of myself. Except, there was one glaring issue. It was pretty barebones and kind of ugly. I fiddled around for a few hours with it before getting the bright idea of trying to use a Javascript Bootstrap.
Started off my CLI Gem project pretty strong. I knew exactly what I wanted and (mostly) how to do it. But then came the hard part, actually doing it.