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Posted by Simon Walsh
Simon Walsh
Courses Plus Student 1,741 Points

Ruby on Rails tutorials....

The quality of the treehouse tutorials is excellent and I think the instructors on the rails tutorials are superb.... BUT and this is a big but..... Why are you not matching your great content with regular updates? Even the rails 4.1 to do list is marginally out of date resulting in glitches. You end up spending as much time on stackoverflow trying to find the answers as actually following.

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Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
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Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

I completed the whole series using Rails 4.1.8. What problems did you encounter? I only had to change some tests because I was using RSpec 3.

Simon Walsh
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Simon Walsh
Courses Plus Student 1,741 Points
Simon Walsh
Simon Walsh
Courses Plus Student 1,741 Points

Many thanks for your response. Thats precisely the issue I had trouble with. I used the latest version of rspec and had difficulties with the bin/rails generate rspec:install which kept returning that it couldn't load the install generator. I switched my code to the version of rspec in the tutorial and it worked fine. Would like to do this tutorial with the most up to date dependencies. Does this issue sound familiar to you?

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points
Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

I generally ignored the whole bin/ thing and was just running rspec to run all the tests. Also, some syntax has changed since version 2, so some of the tests look different. But other than that it was fine :). I know it can be difficult for someone who is just starting with Rails. Odot is not a good starting project. I was able to do Odot videos and customize everything (and deal with tests) only after learning a lot of Rails and RSpec on my own in other tutorials/books/projects. All I can suggest is going through Everyday Rails Testing with RSpec book, which will make you an RSpec ninja ;). The newest version deals with RSpec 3 and has free RSpec 2 book with it.

Simon Walsh
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Simon Walsh
Courses Plus Student 1,741 Points
Simon Walsh
Simon Walsh
Courses Plus Student 1,741 Points

Many thanks. I will look into it. I'm definitely new to rails but I would say i'm fairly expert with PHP as well as several PHP frameworks (like so many rubyists) and I actually find the journey pretty straightforward so far. I'll keep going with ODOT for now. I wish the social network tutorial could be updated. The content is excellent but dated.

Many thanks Pal,

Simon