We played around with Sinatra, which is a framework for quickly creating web applications in Ruby. Other ways include Rails, Express/Node.js, and Django. We reviewed how to set up routing, which tells the application what the URLs should be for different pages. You can also pass variables into the URLs for more dynamic URLs.

There’s different ways of working with data on the server, which include:

• GET – for ‘getting’ info (no data is changed)
• POST – for ‘creating’ new data (usually by submitting a form)
• PUT – for ‘updating’ existing data (usually by submitting a form)
• DELETE – for ‘deleting’ data

To create views in Sinatra, you let it know which pages you want to route to with erb files, which are files that include a mixture of HTML and Ruby code. You even can share variables in different views.

Later in the day we met with Outcomes where we had someone come in to speak to us about networking on Linkedin. We also worked on our brand statements and then did an exercise where everyone went around the room and said what the good qualities were of our different classmates. Here’s what everyone had to say about me:

• good eye for design
• picks up things quickly
• understands development
• ahead of the game
• quick learner
• quickly dissect a problem
• a leader
• focused
• detail-oriented
• humble
• perfectionist
• resourceful