locked & loaded w/ Rails
I possess over a year and a half of web development experience and learning using the Ruby on Rails stack (ERB/Haml, SQLite, Rspec/Cucumber, Fat/Skinny models and controllers). In this time I have successfully completed a web development boot camp focused on full stack Rails development and served as a Teachers Assistant for the program.
A detailed listing of topics and features used to build and deploy production quality web applications of non-trivial size and complexity can be found on my GH below in the README.rdocs of the repos entitled bootlegz and qosdeez.
Applications built include but are not limited to the following topics:
| TDD/BDD | REST | MVC | Integration |
| Workflows | e-Commerce | Relational databases | Database assocs |
| ActiveRecord | Resourceful routing | Partials | Helpers |
| Filters | Rails forms | Validations | Strong params |
| Callbacks | Authentication | Simple roles | Deployment |
| Polymrphc assocs | Ajax, the Rails way | Pretty URLs | Building APIs |
| Creating gems | Publishng gems | Adv Rails Topics | Request/Response |
Development tools
After spending an obnoxious amount of time finding the combo of dev tools that can keep up with my can't-sit-still-to-save-my-life steelo, I have settled on the following arsenal .. for now:
- MacBook Air 11-in 1.3G Intel Core i5 4G 1600 MHz DDR3
- OSX Mavericks v 10.9.3
- Sublime Text 2 v 2.0.2
- Base v 2.4.8
- Nitrous.IO
Big ups to Nitrous.IO for making it possible for me to get it poppin anywhere .. anytime. As per the marketing, it is a full-featured IDE in your browser which enables anyone to code a variety of languages (Ruby, Python, Go, NodeJS and PHP) and run web servers, databases, caches and more right from the menu bar. Please bow your heads and join me in a moment of silence .. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.