Hello,
Following a discussion on Twitter, I’m going to propose writing a full stack guide to help beginners understand the full stack of a Rails app.
This guide should covert the creation of a real app. Here are some areas that I’d like to cover:
testing
migrations
authentication (built in)
uploads
cookies/sessions
some coffee/remote helpers
deploy to heroku (?)
more?
Some ideas for an app include a blog, social network, ecommerce. Any idea?
Not sure… that would be more or less the purpose of the getting started guide I believe.
This sounds like the material that would be covered in a book.
Ah, we misuntersdood each other yesterday on Twitter.
The purpose of the getting started guide is to cover the full stack superficially, to give a bird’s eye to a newcomer. Covering the full stack in more depth is the purpose of the guides as a whole. I don’t see another guide in between.
I’ve checked the testing guide and albeit it is marked as WIP looks like it is in a pretty good shape. I’ll review it and perhaps add a little section on fixture maintenance, and good to go.
Sounds good to me