Module 3 - Intermission Pre-Work

Module 3 Intermission Work

Required Deliverables

You must submit all of these assignments. They are due the Saturday before the start of the inning by 5pm

Submit your work here: Survey Link

Versions:

  • Ruby 3.2.2 (run ruby -v)
  • Rails 7.1.x (run rails -v)
  • Node > v16 (run node -v, you are likely on the latest Node version by using nvm)

If you need help updating Ruby or Rails versions, check out this page. If you need to revisit Node installation, check out this page.

1. Getting Deployment-Ready

Sign up for the GitHub Student Developer Pack, using your @turing.edu email address.

  • This step sometimes takes a few days for GitHub to complete, but once you sign up for your credits you’ll be able to take advantage of their benefits!
  • Follow these instructions to get the info you require to complete registration. You’ll need to wait (a few days) to be approved.
  • Once you’re accepted, you should be able to sign up for Heroku Student.
  • Ask in #codehelp if you get stuck on any of these steps

2. Technical Resume

To start your Professional Development work in mod 3, plan to spend 60-90 minutes completing this async lesson on crafting your Resume.

3. Intro to React

Complete this IdeaBox tutorial. This tutorial will take you about 4 hours to complete.

4. Consuming APIs with Ruby

Complete this exercise to gain familiarity with consuming an external API within your Set List application!

5. Dev Best Practices

Read Sandi Metz’s Rules for Developers and take some notes on what you learn!

6. Practice with Deeply Nested Collections

As we know, when consuming APIs, the data is often returned in deeply nested collections, so when using Ruby, we will need to tap into our Mod 1 skills to practice digging through them to retrieve the data you need.

Fork and clone Here Be Dragons. Get the tests to pass. This is something you’ll turn in with your submission, so make sure you make a forked copy of it.

7. Service-Oriented Architecture

Review this lesson on Service-Oriented Architecture here.

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