Ah yes, you know this one. Tale as old as time…the good ‘ol FizzBuzz challenge. Beginning my coding journey with Flatiron School, this was one of the initial lab challenges students were asked to complete in Phase 1: Ruby. There are a multitude of articles and other resources that do…

This past week I began studying data structures and algorithms after meeting for a mock technical interview with a Flatiron School alumni. The interview was extremely insightful in showing me where my areas of opportunity were. If you didn’t already guess, it was in algorithms. This post will be centered…

My experience with Heroku so far has been full of turmoil as I navigate issues with deployment and learn to understand the logs. There may even have been an existential crisis….or two (only half-kidding). This post will discuss the most recent log error I solved, thus successfully deploying an application…

In this post, I will be detailing how I set up my project using Rails as an API-only backend with Postgresql as the database, as well as how to deploy to Heroku. With hours spent debugging errors in setting up Postgresql and deploying Heroku, I hope to save new learners…

Just a few months ago I embarked on one of the most rewarding and terrifying journeys of my life. My journey started with the difficult decision to leave my job during a pandemic due to safety concerns for myself and my family. …

Javascript project-week has arrived! The requirements for the project were as follows: “The application must be an HTML, CSS, and JavaScript frontend with a Rails API backend. All interactions between the client and the server must be handled asynchronously (AJAX) and use JSON as the communication format.” In addition, students…

This week students were tasked with building their first Ruby on Rails project. I can honestly say that this was the most difficult task to date. Below I will describe my process for completing the project. To begin, the following were the requirements for the project: Requirements: Use the Ruby…

In reviewing my project, I realized I had forgotten to do a crucial step in my program — authenticating my users. What exactly is user authentication and why is it so important? User authentication essentially verifies a user, or proves the identity of a user, when they are logged into…

For my second project for Flatiron, I had to build a CRUD, MVC app using Sinatra. The program had to allow a user to create/read/update/delete an item, or object on the web application. I chose to build an application that represented a grocery store website where a user could create…