The new normal this week is getting to grips with sinatra, get’ing and post’ing routes, and getting used to linking the views to the controller and to the model of MVC. Just when I thought I was doing pretty well in Ruby, we just got thrown into unfamiliar territory again! The afternoon ‘Battle’ project is our first attempt into making something in the new format and syntax so it was interesting to see how an app come to life on the web, especially when it gets re-routed to the different paths.
My pairing partner was feeling unwell today so I worked through the implementation of the app on my own. It was difficult to figure out what the right path redirection would look like so I’ve had to rely on the walkthrough quite a lot. Even then, it took some time for me to adjust to the logic and the linking back and forth between the model, view and controller confused me for a while! I really hope with more practice and experimentation, this will become second nature to me.
I suspect this will become a new normal for us, where by every week or two we’ll get thrown into the deep end of learning something that’s almost completely alien to us and we’ll feel extremely uncomfortable.
Here’s to surviving!
