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Comment · 9 years ago
Michael Hartl's Rails tutorial (https://www.railstutorial.org/) is a great example of this.
It'll run you through building a twitter clone and introduce you to git, heroku, a bit of CSS/HTML, and even goes into AJAX a bit.
I can't recommend it enough to people looking to get into rails.
Comment · 9 years ago
I've been working on creating a platform for a non profit to get veterans coding (http://operationcode.org/). We're a slack based community and have been rolling out some home grown slack bots and we currently have a rails app hosted on heroku. Managing and keeping track of the different apps was getting unwieldy so in an effort to consolidate our apps and reduce costs I evaluated a few different options. I ended up going with rancher and after working with it a bit I'm pretty happy.
I have github hooked up to travis. When a new PR (or commit) is pushed travis shoves the app into its container, and runs the test suite inside the container.
If that passes AND the branch is master we push the image to docker hub. As of now we manually update the app inside of rancher but I think automating that will be a simple API call. Once we get more stable I'll be investigating that.
I still haven't quite figured out secret management but outside of that and a tiny learning curve it's been pretty smooth sailing.
An example travis config: https://github.com/OperationCode/operationcode_bot/blob/mast...
Comment · 10 years ago
Operation Code (http://operationcode.org)
Operation Code is an open source project that helps military, guard & reserve troops, veterans and their families get coding and building software to change the world.
We're overhauling the signup flow to make it easier for software mentors, new signups and contributors to get started.
HTML/CSS, JavaScript, Ruby on Rails
https://github.com/operationcode/operationcode
https://github.com/OperationCode/operationcode/blob/master/C....
MIT
Comment · 10 years ago
Operation Code (http://operationcode.org)
Operation Code is an open source project that helps military, guard & reserve troops, veterans and their families get coding and building software to change the world.
We're overhauling the signup flow to make it easier for software mentors, new signups and contributors to get started.
HTML/CSS, JavaScript, Ruby on Rails
https://github.com/operationcode/operationcode
https://github.com/OperationCode/operationcode/blob/master/C...
MIT
Comment · 10 years ago
Using Firefox/Chrome on a linux box doesn't really compare to getting a dev environment setup.
For a rails app it's not a stretch to have to install postgres, rvm, ruby, some compiled gems, and redis. Then you need to make sure postgres and your rails server are running.
These aren't insurmountable and we can write documentation around it but compare that to 'Log into c9.io, copy this workspace and work on a ticket'.
I work with people that want to learn how to program and I hear feedback that getting an environment setup is overwhelming somewhat regularly. These online IDEs look like they can really combat that.
Comment · 10 years ago
As long as they didn't state you can't use external libs it IS a good solution.
Their response lets their team dynamic and environment shine through. They came across an unexpected but valid solution and instead of accepting their question was beaten within the rules they rejected it. I'd wager they didn't fix the wording of the question afterwords either.
Comment · 10 years ago
The actual roadmap is here:
Comment · 11 years ago
FYI your page is empty of any content with ghostery enabled.
Comment · 11 years ago
My team at a recent Startup Weekend did this.
RasPI with a PID loop turning a fan on (increase heat)/off (decrease heat). The RasPI fed this into a backend server via websocket. We through a front end on to graph the temp, humidity etc. We could even set the temp and turn the fans on/off via the site.
Comment · 11 years ago
I haven't done much with Phoenix but I think there are a few libraries out there. I think addict is the front
runner:
https://github.com/trenpixster/addict
https://github.com/opendrops/passport
Also here's a nice blog post that was in the elixir newsletter that may help!
Comment · 11 years ago
Learning a functional language (and way of thinking) was pretty enlightening to me.
I've also been looking into learning a bit about machine learning and data science via https://www.kaggle.com/. They run contests with some very interesting problems.
I don't know if these are the next 'big things' but i certainly don't regret learning them.
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