The rails project was far more complex than the sinatra one in my opinion. Sure rails has a huge amount of shortcuts but tons more files that are altered than sinatra. So for starters, i coded a good bit of my rails website before i even tested it with rails s and i ended up regretting this due to the fact that i ran into a problem with ‘yarn’. Yarn is a dependency file that rails 6+ requires without it being a gem. This caused problems that made me not able to run ‘rails s’, so i downloaded yarn uninstalled the gem and tried again but still no good. After googling for about an hour or two and trying about 8 different ‘fixes’, i finally found a fix for yarn and got my rails s working. I felt like it was important to include this in my rails blog because i felt that i learned a good amount of knowledge about troubleshooting compatibility issues or gem problems and finding a fix for them.
The basic files or folders like models, db/migrate, routes and some of the controllers were pretty straight forward. The view files were a bit tedious sometimes because i had to refer to the previous lessons a number of times for methods i didnt remember. I ran into a couple of errors due to some simple mistakes here and there such as accepting a :username value at the login instead of :name (which is what i had it as in my model file). It was omniauth that i just couldnt get down, i tried doing github omniauth, google omniauth, and facebook omniauth but no look on any of them. I tried several ways of doing, watched tutorials, and altered files but still couldnt get it working. In the end as i was about to give up and turn it in as is and let the reviewer tell me what i was doing wrong, i realized i hadnt added the gem omniauth-facebook. It finally worked once, but still after attempting it again, no luck. I finally realized the time for my project was out and i am submitting it with a fault that it cannot login with omniauth. I’m sure that the reviewer will give me some good constructive critisim as to what i did wrong and will point me in the right direction to fixing this part of my project.