Rails

Created a basic Ruby on Rails app. This app only exposes a REST API.

The learning curve for Rails is interesting. I started building a model before I found out about Request Specs. So, I shifted to an outside-in approach and wrote a request spec first. Then, I found out about rails generate scaffold, which generates a bunch of tests automatically. Most of them already do useful stuff straight out of the box. I just needed to supply a tiny bit of code to get them all to pass. I’m not 100% sure how that jives with TDD, but is sure feels rather efficient.

I used Ruby 2.4.3 and Rails 5.0.7.2 because that’s what we’re using at work.