Learning Journal | Nearsoft Academy | Week 11
December 07 — December 14
Hello! 👋 This is my eleventh-week takeaways being part of the Nearsoft Academy program, a space to learn, practice, and grow. I’ll post every week, all about the topics I’ve learned during this adventure.
This was the third week of the Open Source phase.
While I was working on my last issues and looking for some new ones, I learned different things.
asdf
I started to use the asdf version manager, so far I’ve used it to install different versions of ruby, to be able to run the project where I’m contributing, and also to keep working on another project that I use to test and learn more about rails.
It is really easy to use, I love that you should use asdf as a command, it makes it very easy to write!
Docker
To run properly one of the projects where I’m working on, they recommend to use a docker image, so I learned a bit about some basic docker commands like docker/build and docker/server, to run the container seed the database and serve the project to be able to use it locally.
I need to keep learning more about it, I still know just the basic things to work with it.
Keep training
This week, I started to work on some codewars challenges to keep learning about JavaScript and Ruby. I’ve been learning about some functions to manage string and arrays.
Random fact: JavaScript was developed in 10 days!
Contributions
I’ve worked on an Open Food Network, since last week. I’ve been a little bit stuck sometimes because rails projects are still new for me, but I have a clearer idea about how to solve the issue, so I feel lucky to finish it during the week.
I just found a new project: If-me.org which is a community to share mental health experiences, I was looking a bit into it and It looks so interesting, and I got more interested in it when I discovered it is done with React and Ruby on Rails, so I immediately went to see their issues and I found, I ask to help with it, and I will work on it during the week.
That was it about this week. I’m very excited to work on rails projects because I’m learning a lot and I’m loving it.
See you next week.
