Learning Console for Ruby on Rails

Hello, Joe! You're not crazy! I found it frustrating at first too. But now I feel weird when I'm NOT working in the console! Just keep working away at it and you'll get used to it sooner than you think! :)

Hi, Joe Dayvie , how have you been? I remember having a forum conversation with you about Xcode & Swift a while back, now let's talk a little about something near and dear to my heart -- the UNIX terminal.

I've been working with the console everyday for the almost 10 years, and to be honest, I don't remember everything taught in this course. For example, background job, foreground job are sth I always need to look them up, because I just don't use them very often.

The thing about the console is that, it's massive, it can be considered as a complete Operating System on its own. You aren't supposed to remember everything there's to know about the console, and I doubt anyone could. What you should do is to gain better understanding of the console by constantly using and exploring various aspects of it.

Here're some suggestions I can offer:

• remember some of the most frequently used commands, such as ls, rm, cd, mkdir, touch, echo, history, grep ... etc. Having a good grasp of these few most useful commands goes a long way, since most of your time spend on console is to repeatedly typing them, one after another.
• almost all console commands come with man page of help docs; either by typing man command_name or command_name --help, it'll show you a comprehensive list of things you can do with the commands, this info is invaluable.
• have a cheatsheet handy so that you don't have to google everytime you forget about how to use 1 small command. I always have this book on my desk for reference The Linux Command Line: A Complete Introduction