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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 allowsContinue reading “Ruby on Rails and Active Record Naming Conventions”

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 whatContinue reading “What the heck is NPM?!”

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, anContinue reading “Asynchronous functions”

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 thingsContinue reading “An update.”

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 journeysContinue reading “Hello, World!”