Hi, my name is Jason, and I have imposter syndrome. What is imposter syndrome? In its simplest form, imposter syndrome is the feeling that you’re a fraud. According to Wikipedia, the term came into existence in 1978 by clinical psychologists Pauline R. Clance and Suzanne A. Imes. Despite external evidence of their competence, those exhibiting the […]
Learning Ruby – the Simplicity and Joy
I wish I would have found programming sooner. Specifically, I wish I would have found Ruby earlier in life. Learning Ruby changed my life. Discovering Ruby Server-side programming was something I thought I wouldn’t be able to do. It considered it only for the “smart people.” Eventually, I mustered up the courage to give it […]
Hanami Models and Making it All Work – Learn Hanami #4
If you’ve made it this far, you should know about routes, controllers, and views in Hanami. In the last Learn Hanami lesson, we’ll be looking at Hanami models. If you have a Rails (or MVC) background, you’re likely familiar with models. Models represent data your application will use. However, Hanami may utilize models differently than you’re […]
Actions (Controllers & Views) – Learn Hanami #3
At this point, you should have a route setup leading to posts#index. If you’ll remember, posts is the URI and index is an action. You might be wondering what actions are. If you come from a typical MVC background, you might think an action is just a controller. I want you to clean any pre-conceived idea […]
Hanami Routes – Learn Hanami #2
By this point, you should have Hanami installed on your computer with an empty Hanami application named blog ready to go. Today, you’ll learn how Hanami routes work. Routes are the entry point to your web application. A router is used to tell your application where to send an incoming request. Under the hood, Hanami routes […]