Lazybones: Skeleton Rails3 App
I’ve set myself a 30 day challenge for the month of January. Nevermind that January has 31 days.
Every morning, I’m going to get up an hour early (yes, weekends included) and practice programming.
This is different from programming at work. For one, I don’t need to deliver anything. I basically want to be able to do some deliberate practice on TDD/BDD and refactoring, as well as explore some gems that I’m unfamiliar with.
I have a couple of projects that I can use for this. One is OverkillCMS:
git://github.com/kowen/overkill.git
This is a simple CMS for a friend of mine which I’m making simply to practice full TDD/BDD using rspec and cucumber. That, and because her current website requires her to edit html and css, and she’s not a programmer.
Another is Carbon Dating – An Open-Source Ruby on Rails Dating App
git://github.com/kowen/c14.git
This one is also inspired by some friends of mine. They’re running a tiny niche dating site that uses some of the ugliest PHP code you will ever see. It’s an embarrassment to cowboy coders everywhere.
In preparation for these two projects, I went ahead and found out how to set up a rails 3 project per my own preferences (rspec, cucumber, jasmine, haml, sass, compass, watchr, metric_fu) and documented it here, along with some convenience files: