Jumping feet first into the Javascript Ocean

It was a dark and stormy nigh… nah, it was a cold NYC winter when my first JS project was upon me. I knew exactly what I wanted to do: Just add some javascript to my rails project. I searched far and wide for ways to incorporate javascript into just one page of my rails application, which is when I discovered submodules.

In essence, submodules allow you to connect one repository with another, a nifty utility if you know what you’re doing. I quickly learned that I have much to learn. My using submodules led to too many really weird errors, so I just simply decided to start from scratch but using two of the same models from my rails project, Physio.

The backend went pretty smoothly. At this point, I’ve only created backend applications, so that helped. I ran into a few issues with the fast json api gem, but nothing I couldn’t figure out.

To be honest, this project wasn’t too difficult. Flatiron provided enough material to help work my way through it. The only challenge I really had was balancing the project with my work schedule.