My first Rack app

2 points by melhoir 9 years ago | 2 comments

I don't come from a programming background, I just work at a typical burger joint around the corner. Here lately(past year) I have been working on my skills to advance my html/css hobby into something more. After a few months I felt ok on the front end so I dove into Ruby about two months ago and Rails a few weeks ago. While on one of my rabbit hole expeditions to better understand the Rails architecture I mangled together a rack application and uploaded it to heroku with some embedded Ruby to spit out the day of the week. I feel like I made an achievement in life and wanted to share!

Rackapp: https://murmuring-sands-27326.herokuapp.com/

brudgers 9 years ago |

Curious if the source code is available. Also about which resources you're using to learn Ruby and Rails.

melhoir 9 years ago | |

The source is absolutely available: https://github.com/WhiteWhiskey/rack_app

There is also a link to GitHub on the app.

  Learning resources:
    https://careerfoundry.com
    https://www.railstutorial.org/book
    https://learnrubythehardway.org/book/
    Browsing GitHub

  Books I've bought:
    O'Reilly Ruby Cookbook
    The Well-Grounded Rubyist
    Beginning Ruby
      From Novice to Professional Third Edition
    Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby: An Agile Primer

If you look through the source code I would enjoy feedback good or bad. I have not been able to find any resources that get past 'hello world' with rack. So what I have wrote was learned from those hello world apps combined with browsing GitHub. I have no idea if I am doing things right or not but it works for now.