Great People Do Things Before They're Ready

I still don’t like the fact that I don’t have my very own Rails app out in the wild with users that I can work on regularly to master learning Rails, so I decided to continue going through the online Rails Tutorial book. Today I finished chapter 3. Hopefully it won’t take too much longer for me to finish the rest of the tutorial and feel some what comfortable starting my own Rails application.

Just a couple of things I learned from chapter 3:

• provide is a Rails function
• the layout file is called ‘application.html.erb’ and is found in ‘app/views/layouts/’

My wife found this quote on pinterest last night:

Great people do things before they’re ready. They do things before they know they can do it. Doing what you’re afraid of, getting out of your comfort zone, taking risks like that - that is what life is. You might be really good. You might find out something about yourself that’s really special and if you’re not good, who cares? You tried something. Now you know something about yourself. -Amy Poehler

I’m probably never going to be “ready” to start making production quality Rails apps by just reading a book. I’m just going to have to start making my own app (even though I’m not ready) and struggle through it. I keep trying to find the magic tutorial to teach me Rails, but I don’t think it exists. Struggling through my first app and not giving up is the only real way to master this stuff.