RoR in the browser (Heroku + Code-academy)

This is Hemanth , Founder at Codelearn. We had unprecedented spike in our traffic this morning. Thanks very much for trying us out.

frank confessions :

1. We did not expect that codelearn will get posted on hackernews, leave alone make it to the front page!.

2. We wanted a smaller audience to try it out first before releasing to a larger audience at hackernews .

3. We have been working on this only for 2 months now and there are lots of rough edges, some of them are really silly, like making the rails environment production and ideally we should fixed these small things.

4. We are working to fix these problems and will post a message here as soon as we are done.

5. Some of you have pointed that there were Grammatical errors in the copy. We understand that it is important, but we did'nt expect such a large audience.

I would like to reiterate my gratitude for the support .

warm regards hemanth

I spend my summer teaching high school students to code, but I doubt this resource would help at all. To be honest, I'm not sure what the target audience is for this. The tutorial assumes knowledge of Unix (otherwise you're copying commands such as mv, cd, touch, ...) without explanation, meaning it's not necessarily about coding anymore. Yes, knowledge of the Unix command line is important, but that complexity should either be approached explicitly or hidden away, especially with a tag line "the best way to learn coding". Coding is quite independent of the OS you're using.

I'd also question using RoR as "the best way to learn coding". This is nothing against the framework, simply the complexity and the amount that's magically set up for you defeats or complicates the learning process. If they really want to go with that tag line, I'd be more specific -- something like "the best way to learn RoR/webapp coding".

There's also a lack of information on the CodeLearn site. Is it a pay service after the beta ends?

ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid in Devise::RegistrationsController#create SQLite3::BusyException: database is locked: commit transaction

Rails.root: /home/ubuntu/codelearn

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NoMethodError in Devise::RegistrationsController#create

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