J5 what do you need to know about rails? A lot more than you might think. The weird thing about learning rails thru hobo is taking hoboisms for granted and then wondering how the "regular" rails coders manage.
I found three things useful: 1. Rails cast podcasts- they're typically five or ten minutes on one concept 2. The rails website 3. Books: Enterprise Rails Ruby Best Practices Rails Antipatterns Design patterns in ruby Well Grounded Rubyist Sent from my iPhone On Mar 8, 2012, at 4:35 AM, JezC <[email protected]> wrote: > Questions: > > J1/ What's a good development environment? - Webrick, Unicorn, etc? > And a basic Gemfile (e.g. conditionally include ruby-debug, switch > Rack to 1.2.4 (or am I alone in getting crashes when I use 1.2.5?)) > with all the core bits, and a commented section with the "extras" like > the jquery stuff that Bryan has published. So... "install rvm, install > ruby 1.9.2, update gem, install rails 3.0.11, install hobo 1.3, edit > Gemfile, run bundle install, set gemset... now you can start to make > new hobo projects". "add jquery, add ..." and now you can tackle some > more complex projects. And the regular set of checks on ruby version, > gem version, gems, rails versions, hobo versions; how to keep up to > date and how to freeze for production environments. > > J2/ Are there any editors that cope with DRYML? e.g. TextMate/emacs/vi > etc? > > J3/ What about security? After the latest mass assignment kerfuffle, > what needs to be done to make Hobo resistant to simple attack? > > J4/ What's a good development cycle? e.g. As I was learning, I've > found that it paid to do a 'hobo g migration' pretty much anytime I'd > changed a file. Eventually I've worked out when I *should* do a "hobo > g migration", but I wasn't doing it enough to start with and that > caused silly problems. > > J5/ What do you need to know about Rails to get started, and where do > you find out more about Rails (and why you'll need to do so)? > > J6/ What real websites have been put together with Hobo? > > J7/ What's the difference between Datamapper and Hobo Fields, and can > I use both? > > J8/ Can Hobo work with legacy databases, and how? > > J9/ How do I pass back an extra field from a form? > > That's my group of questions :) > > I think I can now answer your question 1, in simple language. I can > answer some of the questions I've raised, I think... I can probably > write reasonably useful answers to J9, possibly J1, J4. The other > questions are partly my experience, and I've been introducing a few > other people to Hobo and have been listening to their problems... > > Document? Or is this really another web app, with a summary page? > Preferably with community voting a la the stackoverflow type models? > > Cheers, JeremyC. > > On Mar 8, 3:15 am, Bryan Larsen <[email protected]> wrote: >> As I mentioned off-hand in an answer to Bob's question, it would be >> nice to have a document called "frequently asked questions and >> misunderstandings". Let's use this thread to suggest questions and >> solicit volunteers to answer them. >> >> 1) What's the difference between a tag invocation without a colon, >> with a colon on the end of the tag name and with a colon in the middle >> of the tag name. >> >> 2) Why doesn't Hobo throw an error for an undefined parameter? >> >> 3) How come I can't mix parameter and non-parameter tags? >> >> other questions? Anybody want to volunteer to answer some of these? >> >> cheers, >> Bryan > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Hobo Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/hobousers?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hobo Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hobousers?hl=en.
