Twitter at the speed of parenting
ALL I WANTED WAS RAILS NEW: A 50-step saga in which I have two things: 1. an idea for an web app 2. a laptop that hasn't seen rails development since 2016 >_<pic.twitter.com/4L2fNi4Q2c
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Just to short-circuit a certain type of reply: YES, I clearly should have googled the error message sooner
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Also this is a great example of the "idiot-genius roller coaster" of software development that I first heard about from @KentBeck - there's the trough of despair, "why can't I get something simple like this working" and then the crest of VICTORY, "OMG I AM SO AMAAAAAZING"
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My point here is NOT “Rails is bad” - most frameworks have this upgrade problem. My point is that we put a significant complexity burden onto app developers to understand their OS - which has no redeeming value except making those of us who figure it out feel superior.
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How might we enable app developers to to focus their attention on the app, rather than the environment?
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UPDATE: I worked on this code for about 45 minutes tonight, & I now have most of the app I wanted. Test driven, running on CI, & deployed to heroku. Rails: Once You Install It, It’s Great
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My code is 90 % done. Now I just have to do the other 90%
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this is so god damn true, some days i think my best quality as a dev is an absolute refusal to give up haha
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