Rails is more simple than you think
Published: January 25th, 2007Everytime I have a problem with Ruby on Rails, it’s usually because I’m trying to do things to complicated. But I guess that’s what makes people professionals; being simple.
At least that’s how it is in my case.
Everytime I have a problem with Ruby on Rails, it’s usually because I’m trying to do things to complicated. But I guess that’s what makes people professionals; being simple.
So my actual learning process is learning simplicity. Afterall, Rails is built on the idea of a “agile framework”.
Pardon my noobness, but things like this are what I’m talking about.
@poems = Poem.find(:all, :conditions => ["user_id = ?", current_user.id]
Yeah sure, that’s pretty enough, but then I saw the light from railsforum
@poems = current_user.poems
So much easier!
I’ve done quite a bit of newbie stuff lately, but I can actually see an application surfacing now. It took me a couple months of studying and fooling around - but I feel like I’m actually getting somewhere.
I also ordered $100 worth of books to play around with, damn am I a geek or what?
Hey don’t worry - we’ve all gone through the same rite of passage :)
Ready. Set. Go.
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