Ruby on Rails

Colin Law wrote in post #1167691:
> On 4 February 2015 at 20:57, Justin Cheeze <lists@ruby-forum.com> 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.

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