DEV Community: Max Shelley

Sundae Club - Ruby on Rails Livestreams for Learners

Max Shelley — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 07:48:00 +0000

I’ve recently started live-streaming Ruby on Rails coding again 🎉 I really enjoyed the stint I did last year and appreciated everyone that got in touch.

Check out my new channel, Sundae Club, where we'll be working on a Rails app together.

Each week (usually Sunday morning, UK time) I’ll be working on a different part of the app and, as it develops, use questions from learners to experiment with different approaches for different features.

The livestreams aren’t tutorials, they’re more like working on some code together in real-time, but I hope they’ll be useful for people that have started, or are interested in, learning Ruby on Rails.

I'm also hoping that nothing needs to be watched live, all the streams are saved as YouTube videos, so you can go back and watch anything you find useful.

Here are the first few streams if you want to check them out:

‘rails new’ for the first time in a long time. - https://youtu.be/2_pUPKCVX28

Creating our initials models, associations and a front-end. - https://youtu.be/vQjw5uUAx5k

Rebasing work-in-progress git commits into a pull request - https://youtu.be/z1XjfGFl5qQ

Projects promoting Ruby on Rails to new learners?

Max Shelley — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 07:50:46 +0000

A quick note up front, this was originally posted on the Rails forum where it got some likes but no responses, so cross-posting here too to get a few more eyes on it, thanks!

Hi everyone,

Following on from the apparent success of A May Of WTFs, focused around Rails itself and making the experience for those new, or returning, to Rails less WTF-prone, I was wondering what efforts are ongoing to encourage more people to try Rails in the first place as I’d love to join in and get new learners started and help them see how quickly they can get something up and running and how much fun it is to work with Ruby.

Learners I’ve met recently, for example at Ruby Hacknight London seem to often have come to Rails via a number of different routes and it would be great to be involved in increasing their chances of arriving at Ruby/Rails and quickly seeing the benefits.

Do any of you know of more websites/projects looking for help in this area?

https://try.ruby-lang.org/
This is a great resource, I think this is the same project that used to have the great artwork on it (cool foxes?)

https://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html
The guides on the Rails site - amazing content but potentially aimed at those having already made the decision to dip their toe in the water?

More Rails live-streaming: Multi-Step Wizards/Setups & Donations

Max Shelley — Sat, 15 Jun 2019 18:22:49 +0000

Hi everyone 👋 After my first run at this seemed to get positive feedback, and seeing as my next conversation (on Reddit) was about multi-step forms, and that's something I'm about to be working on, I thought that would be a good place to give this another try.

~~I'm going live in 5 minutes here:~~ ~~https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMuAylRthsIFSBFK4JvF5Pg/live~~

Update: I did it! Link is: https://youtu.be/ZBGJs-Fm4es

I'll show you how I handle that design at the moment, and the upcoming work I'm going to be doing that's related to it. Some people were interested in how other people work, so hopefully this might be useful in that respect too.

I'm at home this time, I only have one monitor and it's pretty echoey in here, so I hope this works 🤞

Live-streaming working on a Rails app.

Max Shelley — Sat, 08 Jun 2019 09:32:40 +0000

Hi! 👋 I originally posted this on Reddit and it seemed to get a decent response so I've re-posted it here in case other people want to leave feedback. You can see examples of feedback so far in the comments of this post and this one.

I find that I don't get the time to write-up the things I'm working on in Rails, but still want to talk about them. I'd seen some people recently live-streaming their workflow and found it interesting, so I thought I'd try out a dummy run, I enjoyed doing it and showed it to a couple of people who suggested I post it.

I didn't have time to do a tutorial or anything like that, I tried to provide some context as best I could, but pretty much something wasn't working as expected while I was building a feature, so I just recorded me tracking it down and tried to narrate as best I could.

https://youtu.be/MpvHZ-f4s4k

Is this useful or interesting to anyone? If so, I'd love to know what specifically is useful/interesting about this or watching coding in general so I know what I could focus on to make sure I was providing some value. If not, what kind of Rails content do you prefer? Thanks!

Context: I work on an app that helps organisations (especially good causes), run events, fundraise and run campaigns.