2018 was a very quiet year for me - in terms of personal blogging. The biggest reason was that I had to manage one of the micro blog sites at work, and doing that caused me to be creatively drained. And being creatively drained is not a good start for writing a blog. And so this blog site went quiet.
But if you are curious what I wrote during that gap on my work site, visit:
https://blogs.oracle.com/author/albert-chiang
Sunday, February 3, 2019
Ruby On Rails - Develop. Test. Deploy. Part I
You probably have heard about Ruby on Rails. It is a web app language and framework. It is used by well known brands such as Airbnb, Github, and Shopify (rubyonrails.org). With a language and framework geared for web app building, you can quickly develop a web app, test it (Ruby is guided by Test Driven Development, or TDD), and deploy.
In this blog series titled "Ruby on Rails - Develop. Test. Deploy", I will cover some key concepts, including:
We will create an potluck sign-up website for client Neil. The final product will be a Ruby on Rails production website accessible publicly (as opposed to only deployed on a local laptop). This will be demonstrated via a “Thanksgiving Potluck Signup” app hosted on Heroku (a Platform-As-A-Service).
In this blog series titled "Ruby on Rails - Develop. Test. Deploy", I will cover some key concepts, including:
- Ruby (an Object Oriented Programming scripting language) and
- Rails (the Model View Controller web app framework developed using the Ruby language)
- GEM (Ruby package manager)
- Rake (make utility for Ruby)
- Database (SQLite, PostGRES, simple data modeling)
We will create an potluck sign-up website for client Neil. The final product will be a Ruby on Rails production website accessible publicly (as opposed to only deployed on a local laptop). This will be demonstrated via a “Thanksgiving Potluck Signup” app hosted on Heroku (a Platform-As-A-Service).
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