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There is no single place to look up documentation for our stack. This card includes some hints where you can...
Git is our version control system. Goals Understand why we use git. Learn how to work with your local repository...
makandra is responsible for maintaining about 75 Ruby projects. These projects use a large number of different versions for Ruby...
Rails is our web framework. Goals Be able to write a simple Rails application. Understand how Rails talks to the...
In this card we will learn to write code that scales with a large number of database records. We will...
When your code does not behave as expected, you can use a debugger statement ("breakpoint") at any point in your...
makandra's development process Learn about our process. The squares represent the state of the issue in Linear:
Learn Enough Command Line to be Dangerous (it's in our library => Google Drive) CLI tricks every developer should...
Read the Rails Guide about Active Record migrations Understand why we never use models in migrations. Checkout the repository...
Understand the differences between git diff and git diff --staged (or git diff --cached) Understand the difference between git...
We are using the BEM pattern ("Block, Element, Modifier") to structure our CSS in all new projects. We try to...
Stepping forward from JavaScript Basics, the goal of this card is for you to be able to read and write...
Understand how asynchronous JavaScript works: Read Henning's presentation about asynchronous Javascript (there's also a German video presentation...
Just like we use gems on the server, we use third party JavaScript libraries in the browser. These typically provide...
In a web application you often need to move data between the client (HTML, Javascript) and the server (Ruby, Rails...
Method lookup Understand all the terms in How Ruby method lookup works, in particular: include extend singleton class
In our daily life as web developers we are constantly faced with technical problems that can be solved with a...
Adopting legacy Rails apps Talk to your mentor about how we're approaching applications that are either old or abandoned...
Resources Rails Guide: Internationalization API Guide to localizing a Rails application Locale-aware helpers in ActionView::Helpers::NumberHelper
Talk with a colleague and find out why we're using building some of our sites using static site...