learning-ruby
I don't know all that much ruby (specifically rails). Lets change that.
What is this?
This is a useless API that I created specifically for learning Ruby and Ruby on Rails. Please do not use this as any sort of example, there are probably lots of things I did incorrectly here. Also and this should go without saying, please don't try to use this in production.
The plan
The plan is to create an API that consumes the HackerNews API and then spits out result formatted in some way (did I mention this thing was useless?). From there attach all the necessary things that a production API will require in the real world, linting, tests, etc.
Setup
- Install RVM (link)
- Once installed make sure you are running the right version of Ruby (check
.ruby-version) bundle install
Running the API
WIP
Build Log
Just a little log of my journey
Monday April 13, 2020: The setup. So far everything is going smoothly. Had to make a decision right off the bat whether I wanted to use a regular installation or Ruby, RVM or RBENV. Decided to go with RVM for the time being though I don't think that has a bearing on future work and can be swapped out easily. Reading up on how .rvmrc and .ruby_version configuration files work. Seemed like rvmrc was the way to go but after reading about some of the limitations, using .ruby_version should suffice.
Overall there is a ton of learning at this stage. While I've always worked on Ruby project in the past, I've never had that great of an idea about how they are boilerplated. Also I just realized I misconfigured RVM which was causing issues with sudo and root. I thought this was a bit quirky at first but after reading some more into it, it seems that I forgot to log out after installing RVM so my user never got added to the rvm group in Ubuntu, hence permissions errors.
Well it seems that the rails new by itself may be a little to heavy handed. When I first created a project using rails new ., it created a rails setup for a full fledged app. This is a bit too much for my scope as I want to focus on the backend side of things (where Rails is used the most) so I opted to re-create the rails setup using the --api flag which doesn't add any extra packages required for a full fledged webapp.