I previously made a blog post about how to make a like button with Ruby on Rails, and since my Flatiron cohort has now moved on to JavaScript, I figured I would make a follow up post.
For the purposes of this post I’ll be hooking my JavaScript up to a very simple api with a data structure that looks like this:
If you’re going through Flatiron Bootcamp, or just learning how to use Ruby and JavaScript to create dynamic web applications in some other context, this might be a helpful article for you, if you’re not, I hope you enjoy the ride anyways.
As I mentioned above, this blog post will be about JavaScript and Ruby, with a small splash into fetch requests. I recently ran into a bug when I was coding, where the fetch request kept altering my data in strange ways that didn’t seem to make sense.
Intro:
This blog will be a tutorial on how to implement a like function into a rails application. One thing to take note of before we begin is that while this is aimed at people who are relatively new to Rails, you will need a level of foundational knowledge in order to get the most out of this blog, if you have trouble understanding the terms I use I recommend googling around for some more comprehensive blog posts that cover the basics before coming back here to learn this specific implementation.
Step One:
The first thing we need to do…
Hello, my name is Ariel Grubbs, and this is the first of a series of blogs I will write about my experience learning programming. It will hopefully prove helpful to some of you out there who are also just getting started in the programming world, or are just looking to get another perspective.
So, with introductions out of the way, let’s get started with our topic for today: The Importance of Explicitly Ending Methods Before Calling Other Methods in Ruby. Not a very catchy title. I was recently creating a CLI project where my idea was to send the user…
