Seems like I’m updating on weekly intervals right now. I have a couple updates. The first is that the work project for connecting UltiPro to Active Directory (and most likely other systems) isn’t going to be done in Ruby and Rails. Our team does most of their data integration using Pentaho (Kettle/Spoon). So, it looks like I’m going to be learning how to do some ETL work. It’s actually great experience – even though I would obviously rather be doing the project in Ruby + Rails. I’ll keep updating that as the project starts to take better form. We’re currently in the very early planning stages and most likely won’t get to the meat of the project for at least another two to three weeks.
Outside of this, I’ve spent some time doing more tutorials on pure Ruby syntax. Since I’m still in the beginning stages of getting learning Ruby (and Rails), I felt like the more exposure the better. And it honestly is paying off. I learned a lot more about Regular Expressions that will come in handy down the line. Plus, going over the basics never hurts. I might spend some more time on this at some point, but we’ll see.
In terms of true coding, I spent this evening implementing Bootstrap to the first app that I built for work. It looks a lot better and I even added some clearer documentation to help the user understand what is needed to run the program. It’s cool to be close to wrapping up this first project. I think the only dev task left is to implement some fake data so that I can upload the project to GitHub. It also helped to learn that I wouldn’t need to add any further functionality into the application. I was also planning to add a few more tables to the database to store Oracle and BI data, but that isn’t necessary anymore. So hopefully, I’ll have that all ready for GitHub by the end of the weekend or early next week.
After I wrap up that project, I need to make a quick decision on my next task. Either, I continue creating the Odin Project’s blogger tutorial or move on to a different app. I’ll decide that next week. That’s all for now!