Anyone who’s been through a bootcamp environment knows that more than the imposter syndrome or exhaustion, the thing to fear most are the roadblocks of Project Week. The five to six–day marathon of coding that is Project Week is not without its moment’s of oddly intense joy: finally fixing that…

For beginning learners of Javascript there are few concepts more daunting and head-spinning than the concept of ‘asynchronous’ functionality. My prior experience to jumping headfirst into the ocean of JavaScript was in Ruby—a language our instructor continually described as ‘so friendly!’ Ruby’s appeal for beginning coders is how well it…

Are you an absolute (or relative) beginner at Ruby on Rails? Do you want to dip your toe into the vast sea of APIs in order to make your Rails app more dynamic? This is the place for you—welcome, friend! A note: below is a chronicle of what worked for…