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Summary

We look at extending our rails app with a bit more layout to make it more attractive.

Related Pages

• Hartly 5

Overview

• A few Ruby-isms.
• HTML 5 structure.
• Work time.

Administrivia

• Food!
• I saw interesting variation in the responses to "best Ruby resource", which I think reinforces my decision to use three different resources.
• How would you like to arrange our classes?
  • More class time for project work
  • More class time for discussion of readings
  • Other? (discussed first)

Upcoming Work

• Any necessary prep work from chapter 6.
• Reading Journal for Wednesday (due Tuesday at 8pm)
  • Subject: Reading Journal for Class 8 (Your Name)
  • What do you see as the strengths and challenges of using CSS?
  • What do you see as the strengths and challenges of using Bootstrap?
  • What aspect of the chapter 5 reading confused you the most? Try to explain it in your own words.
• For Friday: SaaSBook 2 and 4.

Good Things to Do

Academic

• Monday, February 8, 4:15 p.m. in Bucksbaum 152, Miriam Langer enjoins you to "Do Your Work in Public" (part of the series "Digital in Public: Intellectual and Technical Skills for Making a Difference")
• Monday, February 8, 7:30-9:00, JRC 101: The Complex Relation Between Alcohol and Sexual Assault
• Noon Tuesday in the White PDR: Bowie, Mickey, and the NFL: Copyright in the 21st century (copies of the reading outside Sam's office)
• 7:30 pm Tuesday in ARH 131 - Funding for unfunded internships
• Rosenfield Symposium on Campaign Finance.
• Anything in this week's Carnival and Creativity series

Peer

A Few Ruby-isms

These are some reflections from your journals.

Ruby != Rails

In answering questions, many of you seemed to conflate Ruby and Rails. Ruby is a general-purpose programming language. Rails is a Web application development infrastructure that happens to use Ruby for its programming aspects.

Duck Typing

"Type-less" Programming

How do you deal with the issue that you haven't clearly specified the type of a variable or parameter?

Mixins

Everything is an object, even Class and Object.

What does that really mean?

Metaprogramming

What is it and why is it useful?

yield

Symbols

Blank Methods

class StaticPagesController < ApplicationController
  def home
  end

  def help
  end

  def about
  end
end

HTML 5 Structure

• HTML markup - Info on content (including roles and structure)
• CSS - Formatting associated with the markup
• Javascript - Interaction

Work Time