Colin Law wrote in post #1167691: > On 4 February 2015 at 20:57, Justin Cheeze <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> much, as the tickets which have been assigned to me are mostly small >>> the exercises. >>> >>> Colin >> >> looked at the url, and was like how am I supposed to reference this with >> what I'm doing, and beat my head against the wall. > > Let me ask a question. Do you understand (mostly) the code that you > are trying to fix? That is do you understand the basic flow through > it and what each section of the code does? At least the part that is > giving problems. > > If you do understand it then the next task is to find out which bit is > failing. One easy way to start this is just to insert puts or inspect > commands in the ruby, to show where the code is and what the value of > variable is, the results of this will be printed in the server log > when it is executed. Then you can study that log and try to work out > what is going on. > > If the above does not make sense then I am afraid you need to go on > some sort of training course or spend some time working through books > and stuff, in order that you get to the stage of understanding what I > am talking about. > > If you do not understand the basic flow in a Rails app then as I said > take some time out (probably a week or so) and work right through that > tutorial. In the long run it will be time well spent. You are just > wasting your employers money banging your head against a brick wall > because of a fundamental lack of understanding of what you are trying > to do. > > Colin
Colin. Yes, I lack fundamentals, the point came across clear. Actually, it would be beneficial to the company and an entry level thinker to have a senior developer on hand to help out. Thanks. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/5c37c7457c0b43bafa4a8fa4c78c4f69%40ruby-forum.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
