sbauch

I also started learning rails in August, just launched my first app. I skipped over TDD, planning on coming back and learning that. Testing just seemed too abstract when I set out, I found it easier to boot my app and "test" in the browser by seeing what changes I made in code actually did.

I didn't find your issue to be something that confused me. There seems to be a lot out there about fat models, skinny views/controller, but it sounds like you should really just ingrain MVC as it pertains to rails in your brain. Rails guides are your best friend here. MVC in effect is the effective design pattern your looking for.

My two cents from a fellow rails beginner. Oh, and check out my app at http://www.uhpartments.com

Can't wait to use this. I got a $165 parking ticket last week.

Congrats on leaving GS! Happy to connect with a developer looking to build something, have some things I'm working on in my spare time. Shoot me an email if you're interested.

Why sinatra and not rails? I've been trying to teach myself ruby (on rails) for an app idea that I have, and this was great news as I'd been having trouble getting off the ground with rails and the koala gem. But for someone new to programming like myself, it seems like there is a ton more learning materials out there for the rails framework than sinatra.

So in a way this seems to me like a very easy way to get a simple app up and running, but I lose all the help that's out there that's specific to the rails framework. Am I being naive in thinking that the little that I've learned about the rails framework won't apply to sinatra?