Linda's Web Technologies

I've followed all the instructions from http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html and I've a blog set up, that has a form, allows a user to create a post, comment, edit, add tags, has some security to protect who can post,and edit, delete etc.  Only problem is that when I click delete post, I get the expected message "are you sure?" with the option to continue or to cancel.  However when I click cancel it goes ahead and deletes the comment anyway.  So I'm trying to find out how I can fix this. 

I've got everything to work..... Rails is up and running, the server seems to be behaving himself, I've created two web pages that link to each other, and on one of the web pages I've embedded some ruby that does some nifty stuff like tell us what time it is now, list all the documents in a directory, do some simple calculations, tell us what time it will be from an hour from now, and it also adds some simple strings to-gether.  So happy days!  But along the way I've strayed a little from the instructions in the book.

I watched Wesley install a new Rails app and thought, Wow that doesn't look so hard.  I set about setting up my own application and it seemed to be going swimmingly despite a small sqlite3.dll missing glitch.  I soon rectified that by downloading the missing dll and putting it in the bin directory of my Ruby 192 application.

So far we have learned how to create classes, define methods, create variables that can be used by the methods, and create arrays.  The next thing I think is to get all these bits and pieces to talk to each other.  So we've made a person class that makes people, we've made a team.class that makes teams, but now we need to be able to make the put the people into the teams. So I finally think I've got my head around how this all could work.  I need to be able to pass an object I have created into a method that I have defined.  I was given that nugget a week ago but it sounded like swahili to me.  What a difference a week makes. :)

I'm uploading the details of how I completed our first SQL exercise.  It makes for some fairly boring reading, but I may have to refer back to it someday and will be glad I made it available here. 

So if you've read my previous post (Server Side Project) I think you'll agree that this project doesn't look half so terrifying.  Although I'm in danger of eating my words, as we haven't had so much of a sniff at Javascripting yet!  So far we've looked at HTML and CSS, and I've felt confident in my abilities to keep up with the lectures. 

By the way the image is of an Electro Indie Pop Band called CSS (Cansei se der Sexy or Tired of Being Sexy” in Portugese).  They are from Sao Paulo in Brazil and they are F.A.B.

I've taken the plunge and gone back to college.  I'm going to document my progress with my very first steps at learning to program.  The Course is Web Technologies. It conists of Client Side (html, css, javascript), Introduction to Web Technologies (a general overview and some SQL), and Server Side (Ruby, Rails).  Server Side is terrifying, and exciting in equal measure.  Our first project is to build an e-commerce web application using the rails framework. Currently I haven't an iota of how I'd even start to build this project, but I'm confident that over the coming weeks it will become clear, and I'm looking forward to building a whole range of new skills.