July 30, 2013 - Team Dysania

Captain's Log: 2013.07.30

• Quick chat with Robin of Discourse in google hangouts (Sam was sleeping)
  • discussed progress so far
  • talked about maybe releasing 1.0 version of gem soon
  • talked about GoGaRuCo and how Discourse maintainers are attending
  • Robin and Sam will be guests on an upcoming Ruby Rogues podcast episode
  • LA Ruby/Rails community, Portland, SF
  • Robin will be reviewing our GitHub, making comments, and reporting back to rest of team
  • still need to introduce ourselves on Discourse meta
• Worked on Preview and Example classes
• TDD again, swapped roles:
  • JZ: making tests pass
  • Vyki: created tests that failed
• Created Amazon class (which we might make inherit from Example later)
• Created Amazon handlebars template
• Learned about File.read and File.join
• Listened to Ruby Rogues podcast on the bus/train
• HOMEWORK: Sleep

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July 29, 2013 - Team Dysania

Captain's Log: 2013.07.29

• Updated mocha to mocha/api
• Started refactoring preview method as Preview class
  • should take in url
  • should output html
  • should extract pieces of page as data
  • should display with template
• Used Test-Driven Development (mostly)
  • JZ: created tests that failed
  • Vyki: making tests pass
  • Captain Kurt: refactoring tests
• Started creating Example class and spec
  • a model for how to build onebox modules
  • will use it to implement existing oneboxes
• Learned to use Nokogiri and Mustache
• Lecture on instance classes, Ruby best practices, and OOP
• Eagerly discussed the forthcoming Hipster Tech Startup CEO simulator game
• HOMEWORK: Listen to latest Ruby Rogues podcast

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July 25, 2013 - Team Dysania

Captain's Log: 2013.07.25

• Worked at Syrup Desserts for Los Angeles Eastside Ruby/Rails study group
• Crêpes on crêpes on crêpes (see photo above)
• Caught up with Jen of Team Bundler
• Intro to Test-Driven Development
  • Captain Kurt showed us project he's working on for a client as an example
  • Create specs first to figure out what you expect the results to be
  • Run specs and write code as you go to make them pass
• Fixed discourse-oneboxer README
  • Edited on GitHub based on Captain Kurt's comments
  • Made commits to pull request
• Learned about Coveralls and Code Climate, added badges to discourse-oneboxer README
• Started writing RGSoC blog post
• HOMEWORK: Read up on object-oriented design and Alan Kay by Monday, finish RGSoC blog post by tomorrow

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