Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Week 1 Day 3: Welcome to the Ruby City! We're not in Kansas anymore...

Get it?  Like the Emerald City in The Wizard of Oz?   Whatever...

Major activities of the day: Git merging a large project, Ruby fundamentals (and learning why Matz is awesome and how Ruby is a secret formula for happiness through programming), programming methods to fit RSpec specifications.  Yes, you read that right - we're already learning to read RSpec code, run tests, and do TDD to fulfill the specs!  We won't be actually writing any RSpec for a while - we need to get a solid grip on Ruby first - but we're starting out with immersion in TDD best practices (including actually reading error messages - they are our friends!).

Skills developed: Git merge and rebase, Ruby coding, TDD with RSpec

QOTD + bonus extra life QOTD! (to make up for yesterday):
"The goal of Ruby is to make programmers happy." - Matz
"It's the exact same reason you make a todo list. Also testing is not for present you, it's for future you." Joe M Burgess

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