Rails and Pet Food

This one took a while and set me back a bit. Sometimes I tend to focus on meeting the project requirements and less about the functionality of the actual product I’m creating. “How does this work for the user?” is something I have to start asking myself before I’m halfway through my project. I did a lot of backtracking and editing code in this one and it definitely set me back a bit.

The idea I had was for a site that took user content reviews of pet food. A way to check which pet foods would work for you by grabbing some reviews from other users. I had a user table, a pet food table, and my join table of reviews.

The new mac has been an interesting addition 60% of the way through a coding course. Some of the gems don’t cooperate and some of the solutions are a bit foreign and take time. A few gems really set me back and took a day or two just to get them working inside the bundle. Watching the trouble shooting my cohort went through was a learning experience in itself.

I hope as I move through this project, my next will be able to take into account the user experience from the start more. I believe if I start with a more fleshed out idea in my head from the beginning, it will prevent a bunch of backtracking. Of course you will have to revert back to your code and debug, but the process will hopefully be more streamlined.