Ruby on Rails and Active Record Naming Conventions
Instead of thicc thighs saving lives, in Ruby, Active Record fulfills that role. Active Record is an ORM (Object Relational Mapping) layer that Ruby on Rails has. It allows users to bind the tables of a database to the Ruby code that uses the database records. With Active Record Migration (basically a method that allows…
What the heck is NPM?!
The relationship between React, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS I will get to NPM shortly. First, it’s important to take a quick peak at the relationship between React, JS, HTML, and CSS in order to figure out where NPM fits in all this. Before I started coding, I asked a software developer friend of mine what…
Destructuring
const {🧍🏻♀️} = 👩🏻🤝👨🏼 This week at FlatIron Bootcamp, we started Phase 2: working with React. Now as a baby software engineer that just **barely** got her footing with (vanilla) JavaScript, I felt absolutely slapped in the face with the introduction of React and JSX, the X-rated version of JavaScript. (Just kidding. JSX stands for…
Asynchronous functions
Apparently coding involves a lot of googling things and crying on the inside when your code doesn’t work. And I learned this both through my SWE friends and the hard way. By hard way, I mean while working on our Phase 1 Project — building a single page application (SPA). SPA’s require a database, an…
5/14 run recap
Best described as a run-splore part of the Upper West Side on a lazy Saturday afternoon… plus SUSHI DAY 😂 Yesterday’s run was poop on a scoop.. it was a struggling 2 miles on tired legs and a burned out brain. Today I didn’t want to run hard, I just wanted to run and enjoy…
An update.
So first, I’m am no longer 26 since I’ve celebrated my 21st birthday for the 7th time in the very-not-so-distant past. I’m solidly in my LATE TWENTIES. **GASP** I’m not where I expected I’d be in life — that 7th 21st was spent in kind of a mood — but there are so many things…
Hello, World!
September 20, 2020: The Game Plan moving forward Hi, everyone, and welcome to my blog! My name is Ashley and I’m a running and fitness enthusiast. After being inspired by some super cool YouTubers, I decided that I wanted to share my running and fitness adventures with other like-minded people and follow along their journeys…
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Running on Tofu Legs 